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  1. Newsgroups: sci.space
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!boulder!ucsu!ucsu.Colorado.EDU!fcrary
  3. From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
  4. Subject: Re: Space suit research?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.225902.1246@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
  6. Sender: news@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (USENET News System)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: ucsu.colorado.edu
  8. Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
  9. References: <BxqsoH.MBq@access.digex.com> <BxsAGu.919@zoo.toronto.edu> <BxuEEB.1ow@access.digex.com>
  10. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:59:02 GMT
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  13. In article <BxuEEB.1ow@access.digex.com> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:
  14. >...What i was wondering is why have the shuttle run at 14PSI  
  15. >earth normal atmosphere?   if the shuttle ran on a mostly O2 atmosphere at
  16. >3-4 PSI  wouldnt all the pre breathe stuff become irrelevant?
  17.  
  18. You don't have to go nearly that far: At 6psi of nitrogen partial
  19. pressure (~9psi total cabin pressure) there wouldn't be any
  20. need for pre-breathing with the current suits.
  21.  
  22.                                                Frank Crary
  23.                                                CU Boulder
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