home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!kr0u+
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Message-ID: <cf2ITIi00iV1Q4FEkc@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:28:20 -0500
- From: Kevin William Ryan <kr0u+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Space suit research?
- In-Reply-To: <Bxs6ou.2F4.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- References: <Bxs6ou.2F4.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Distribution: sci
- Lines: 23
-
- roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
- >-What's the big push for a earth normal type atmosphere?
- >-apollo, etc, ran fine on low pressure pure O2, does better pressure
- >-greatly improve cooling.
- >
- >(1) Henry says it does.
- >(2) It "stands to reason" - five times as many molecules to conduct the
- >heat.
- >
- >-or are there long term bio effects????
- >
- >There *may* be. For example, one of the Apollo astronauts, after a busy day
- >on the moon, had bleeding under his fingernails - thought to be mainly a
- >result of the low pressure. Little indications like that made NASA uneasy. :-)
-
- I would have thought that was from the Apollo suit gloves: they are
- quite stiff under pressure and several astronauts reported sore fingers
- from forcing them closed.
-
- kwr
-
- Internet: kevin.ryan@cmu.edu
-
-