Space Suit safety equipment?

If an astronaut gets hit in the foot by a micrometeorite, does he:

1) Inflate the emergency tourniquet to cut off leakage from the foot?

or,

2) Use the few seconds he has left to say goodbye to his family?

Since no astronaut has ever died during a space walk, I was wondering what
kind of safety equipment is incorporated into the suit. Having
a massive leak in an appendage of the suit should not be fatal. Arms,
legs, hands and feet can be considered somewhat expendable when the
alternative is death.

Does the suit have emergency tourniquets on all appendages?

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Craig Fink writes:

If an astronaut gets hit in the foot by a micrometeorite, does he:

1) Inflate the emergency tourniquet to cut off leakage from the foot?

or,

2) Use the few seconds he has left to say goodbye to his family?

Since no astronaut has ever died during a space walk, I was wondering what
kind of safety equipment is incorporated into the suit. Having
a massive leak in an appendage of the suit should not be fatal. Arms,
legs, hands and feet can be considered somewhat expendable when the
alternative is death.

Does the suit have emergency tourniquets on all appendages?

There's no need: the blood freezes immediately which stops the hemorragy. ;-)

Perhaps we should make mouse suits and slice mices in suits in orbit
to see what happens...

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On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:36:57 +0100, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

Craig Fink writes:

If an astronaut gets hit in the foot by a micrometeorite, does he:

1) Inflate the emergency tourniquet to cut off leakage from the foot?

or,

2) Use the few seconds he has left to say goodbye to his family?

Since no astronaut has ever died during a space walk, I was wondering what
kind of safety equipment is incorporated into the suit. Having
a massive leak in an appendage of the suit should not be fatal. Arms,
legs, hands and feet can be considered somewhat expendable when the
alternative is death.

Does the suit have emergency tourniquets on all appendages?

There's no need: the blood freezes immediately which stops the hemorragy. ;-)

Perhaps we should make mouse suits and slice mices in suits in orbit
to see what happens...


Or, just wait for the suit to be redesigned by an Accident Investigation
Board. ;-(

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If an astronaut gets hit in the foot by a micrometeorite, does he:

1) Inflate the emergency tourniquet to cut off leakage from the foot?

or,

2) Use the few seconds he has left to say goodbye to his family?

Since no astronaut has ever died during a space walk, I was wondering what
kind of safety equipment is incorporated into the suit. Having
a massive leak in an appendage of the suit should not be fatal. Arms,
legs, hands and feet can be considered somewhat expendable when the
alternative is death.

Does the suit have emergency tourniquets on all appendages?


Not that I'm aware of.

There's at least one case I recall reading about where a suit appears to
have developed a hole.

The astronaut had a "hickey" at that spot on his skin.

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