"Rodney Kelp" wrote in message
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So will they be one offs yours to keep after your vacation or the
expensive EMUs and Orlans of space agencies?

For sure they will be less complicated and hopefully tamper proof.

--Chris Vancil

Tourists don't need to do work in space, so the suits may have no
fingers.

So what happens if there is a habitat breach and you have to keep your
space
suit on for a week. How do you **** and crap not to mention eat. Are
there
tubes for all these things? I know some of them have a water tube for
drinking. I don't know about the rest.
Somebody doesn't need to tell me oxygen won't last a week or more. I know
they will have to replenish each other from a bulk supply.

In thinking about it later, it occurred to me that there are two types of
space suits -- flight suits and space walk suits. Given that tourists will
be flying home with their flight suits, they could keep them if they wanted.
For space walk suits, not only are they expensive to make but it is also
expensive to ship them to space. I think that they'll be re-used. Space
suits without gloves may last longer than standard space suits.

If a tourist is hooked to 3 tethers coming from different directions, the
flight crew can control his position. You might have two long metal arms
with tethers coming off of them and a third tether coming from the air-lock.
Tourists could go out one at a time.