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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Space suit research?
- Message-ID: <Bxw1zD.8K7@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:40:18 GMT
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- In article <BxuEEB.1ow@access.digex.com> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:
- >cant you air cool even if the air is a little thin? i know jet aircraf
- >seem to manage wven with a crappy thin atmosphere at 100,000 ft.
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- You can air-cool even if the air is a little thin, but 3psi isn't a little
- thin, it's a lot thin. Nobody air-cools at 100,000ft; there's hardly any
- air left at that altitude. (Nobody much flies at 100,000ft either; half
- that is a more typical ceiling, and a lot of military avionics is not
- air-cooled.)
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- >ALSO in apollo were EVA's part of the planned mission?
-
- Yes, both on early flights for testing, and on the later lunar missions
- for recovery of film canisters from the SM survey-equipment bay. Not to
- mention a zillion contingency procedures that required that electronics
- continue to function despite EVAs or pressure loss for other reasons.
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- MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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