Tim Peake's Sokol KV-2 Spacesuit, 2015
Tim Peake wore this emergency suit in the Soyuz spacecraft during his launch to and return from the International Space Station. It would have kept him alive had the spacecraft depressurised. The electrical and air connectors can be seen on the abdomen and a large blue pressure adjustment valve in the centre of the chest. Every Soyuz cosmonaut has worn a Sokol since the tragic loss of the Soyuz 11 crew in 1971, none of whom were wearing suits.
It was introduced in 1973 and is still used as of 2022. The Sokol is described by its makers as a rescue suit and it is not capable of being used outside the spacecraft in a spacewalk or extravehicular activity. It is similar to the ACES suit that was worn aboard NASA's Space Shuttle during launch and landing.
The Sokol-KV2, the current version of the suit, was first used on the Soyuz T-2 mission, launched on June 5, 1980.
The main improvement was the replacement of the rubber pressure layer of the Sokol-K with rubberised polycaprolactam (Nylon 6) to save weight. The visor was modified and enlarged to give the wearer a better field of view. Laces in the outer canvas layer were replaced with zippers to make the suit quicker to don and the pressure relief valve was moved from the left abdomen to the centre of the chest so either hand could be used to alter the suit's pressure setting. The improved arms, legs, and gloves of the Sokol-KV were retained although the liquid cooled undergarment of the KM and KV was discarded.
Major Timothy Nigel Peake CMG (born 7 April 1972) is a British Army Air Corps officer, European Space Agency astronaut and a former International Space Station (ISS) crew member.
He is the first British ESA astronaut, the second astronaut to bear a flag of the United Kingdom patch (following Helen Sharman), the sixth person born in the United Kingdom to go on board the International Space Station, and the seventh UK-born person in space. He began the ESA's intensive astronaut basic training course in September 2009 and graduated on 22 November 2010.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokol_space_suit
Tim Peake's Sokol KV-2 Spacesuit, 2015
Tim Peake wore this emergency suit in the Soyuz spacecraft during his launch to and return from the International Space Station. It would have kept him alive had the spacecraft depressurised. The electrical and air connectors can be seen on the abdomen and a large blue pressure adjustment valve in the centre of the chest. Every Soyuz cosmonaut has worn a Sokol since the tragic loss of the Soyuz 11 crew in 1971, none of whom were wearing suits.
It was introduced in 1973 and is still used as of 2022. The Sokol is described by its makers as a rescue suit and it is not capable of being used outside the spacecraft in a spacewalk or extravehicular activity. It is similar to the ACES suit that was worn aboard NASA's Space Shuttle during launch and landing.
The Sokol-KV2, the current version of the suit, was first used on the Soyuz T-2 mission, launched on June 5, 1980.
The main improvement was the replacement of the rubber pressure layer of the Sokol-K with rubberised polycaprolactam (Nylon 6) to save weight. The visor was modified and enlarged to give the wearer a better field of view. Laces in the outer canvas layer were replaced with zippers to make the suit quicker to don and the pressure relief valve was moved from the left abdomen to the centre of the chest so either hand could be used to alter the suit's pressure setting. The improved arms, legs, and gloves of the Sokol-KV were retained although the liquid cooled undergarment of the KM and KV was discarded.
Major Timothy Nigel Peake CMG (born 7 April 1972) is a British Army Air Corps officer, European Space Agency astronaut and a former International Space Station (ISS) crew member.
He is the first British ESA astronaut, the second astronaut to bear a flag of the United Kingdom patch (following Helen Sharman), the sixth person born in the United Kingdom to go on board the International Space Station, and the seventh UK-born person in space. He began the ESA's intensive astronaut basic training course in September 2009 and graduated on 22 November 2010.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokol_space_suit