Space suite
If there was an emergency in space and you had to wear your space suit for a
week, where would all the **** and **** go? What if you puked in your space
suite?
If you're referring to existing space suits, and if you mean the suit
absolutely cannot be removed or opened at all during the week, the
answers a
1) The urine will overflow the urine collection device and end up
everywhere in the suit. Space suits aren't tight-fitting.
2) The crap will squish where ever it gets squished to. Brace for
diaper rash.
3) The puke is there to stay, like the other stuff.
There are several other issues for modern space suits when they're worn
for a week:
1) They don't have a week's air supply
2) They don't have a week's coolant supply (modern suits are cooled
with sublimating water)
3) They don't have much of a water supply for the astronaut (shuttle
EMU suits offer 21 and 32-ounce water bags), and no food supply.
Mike Miller
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