Rodney Kelp wrote:

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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.


If we have enough commercial spacecraft commonly operating to make
this possible to begin with, then it's unlikely that one would have to
wait as much as a week for rescue. Even without a dedicated equivalent
of a Coast Guard S&R service, someone(s) will always happen to be
preparing for launch, and be able to meet the launch window constraints.

And a well-designed habitat, like a well designed ship, will be able
to close off sections, and keep them habitable, if one of them
experiences a major pressurization failure. (This has already been
demonstrated on Mir, after all.) Rescue may well come from still
functioning portions of this habitat, before it comes from the ground or
other locations in space.

And there's the matter of evacuation 'lifeboats' as covered in other
threads...

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