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The Republic moon suit
Does anyone know whether there are drawings available anywhere? I
can't find a patent for it (but there's a patent for the much bigger Aerojet suit). I was wondering whether there was room to pull one's arms back into the cylinder. Thanks. Mike |
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The Republic moon suit
On Jan 18, 2:50*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
There's some photos of it hehttp://www.astronautix.com/craft/repnsuit.htm Thaks. I assume you could pull your arms inside, as otherwise it looks like it would be impossible to put on. This says there are shelves of food inside of it, so that would also indicate that the arms can be taken out of the sleeves:http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2005/...pace-explorer/ I thought it might go together fore and after rather than being top and bottom. Somewhere I've seen a smaller suit than the Republic suit, but similar to it. It actually got featured on a postage stamp from Yemen:http://fandom.rusf..ru/about_fan/sta...n_sl2_det4.jpg One wonders who designs those stamps. Mike |
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On 1/18/2011 9:08 AM, wrote:
Does anyone know whether there are drawings available anywhere? I can't find a patent for it (but there's a patent for the much bigger Aerojet suit). I was wondering whether there was room to pull one's arms back into the cylinder. There's some photos of it he http://www.astronautix.com/craft/repnsuit.htm I assume you could pull your arms inside, as otherwise it looks like it would be impossible to put on. This says there are shelves of food inside of it, so that would also indicate that the arms can be taken out of the sleeves: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2005/...pace-explorer/ It actually got featured on a postage stamp from Yemen: http://fandom.rusf.ru/about_fan/stam...n_sl2_det4.jpg Pat |
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On Jan 18, 5:44*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
The Grumman design looked a lot less clunky:http://thefoxisblack.com/2010/04/16/...t-of-the-week/ .... The essay being written by someone distinctly hostile to the entire concept. There was a "Matt Mason" version of that that I had as a kid:http://www.fast-autos.net/diecast-ca...t-Mason-Moon-S... I also used to have some small-scale polyethylene toy astronaut figures, one of which had a partial hardsuit like that design. That's probably the one I'm remembering. Where did that idea originate? Do you remember Claude the Cyborg from a comic book, in about 1965? Imagine a man in a loose jumpsuit, with a helmet of light fabric with #D-glasses as the goggles. Mike |
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On 1/18/2011 6:31 PM, wrote:
On Jan 18, 5:44 pm, Pat wrote: The Grumman design looked a lot less clunky:http://thefoxisblack.com/2010/04/16/...t-of-the-week/ ... The essay being written by someone distinctly hostile to the entire concept. There was a "Matt Mason" version of that that I had as a kid:http://www.fast-autos.net/diecast-ca...t-Mason-Moon-S... I also used to have some small-scale polyethylene toy astronaut figures, one of which had a partial hardsuit like that design. That's probably the one I'm remembering. Where did that idea originate? Apparently a Grumman original, no doubt connected with fairly ambitious lunar exploration plans for the later series Apollo missions. There we quite a few advanced vehicles and suits designed for extended missions, including the fairly well-known MOLAB: http://www.astronautix.com/craft/molab.htm Do you remember Claude the Cyborg from a comic book, in about 1965? Imagine a man in a loose jumpsuit, with a helmet of light fabric with #D-glasses as the goggles. Wait a second, is this the guy that's got copper skinning on him, and they fight things that look like intelligent gorillas in green onion-dome shaped spacecraft? Pat |
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The Republic moon suit
Those designs are not far-fetched; the bubble helmet was adopted but the
CV joints posed a problem, leading to a new design. On 19/01/2011 09:44, Pat Flannery wrote: On 1/18/2011 11:01 AM, wrote: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/...wear-in-space/ Pat |
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The Republic moon suit
On Jan 19, 1:14*am, Obviousman wrote:
Those designs are not far-fetched; the bubble helmet was adopted but the CV joints posed a problem, leading to a new design. On 19/01/2011 09:44, Pat Flannery wrote: On 1/18/2011 11:01 AM, wrote: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/...wear-in-space/ Pat If memory serves me correctly the Soviet Krechet lunar suit had (was to have?) a stiff ring system incorporated in it to assure that if the cosmonaut went down on his back he wouldn't turtle and could get up on the lunar surface. I've never seen this "support system" and I know in times past it was rumored that the support system that the Krechet was seen so often seen sitting in photographs, was in fact the support system. In any case it echoed the structured tripod support system seen in the earlier Astro-in-a-can suit seen here......Doc |
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On 1/18/2011 10:14 PM, Obviousman wrote:
Those designs are not far-fetched; the bubble helmet was adopted but the CV joints posed a problem, leading to a new design. There's no reason the bubble helmet needs to be anywhere near that big; it's an invitation to falling over and cracking your helmet open on a rock. As far as the second one goes, its single arm is going to terribly limit the astronaut's ability to maneuver himself as he tries to escape his damaged spacecraft or operate anything mechanical in zero g, as he would need one arm to operate the intended system, and another to brace himself while doing it. Pat |
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On 1/19/2011 6:45 AM, Dr.Colon Oscopy wrote:
If memory serves me correctly the Soviet Krechet lunar suit had (was to have?) a stiff ring system incorporated in it to assure that if the cosmonaut went down on his back he wouldn't turtle and could get up on the lunar surface. I've never seen this "support system" and I know in times past it was rumored that the support system that the Krechet was seen so often seen sitting in photographs, was in fact the support system. In any case it echoed the structured tripod support system seen in the earlier Astro-in-a-can suit seen here......Doc I've read the same thing; the suit was supposed to have a hula-hoop like partial ring going around its back side to prevent the cosmonaut getting stuck on his back like a turtle if he fell down. The picture of the suit with the red framework on it, he http://www.astronautix.com/craft/krechet.htm Does make it look like some sort of thing that's a part of the suit itself, and not a display frame for it. It looks like it has some sort of pneumatic piston on its center post that would swing the frame out at a ninety degree angle to the suit when retracted. Maybe the cosmonaut was supposed to use it like a pair of crutches to position himself upright again? Pat |
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