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Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing a ground prototype of NASA’s new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), is seen during a demonstration of the suit, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The xEMU suit improves on the suits previous worn on the Moon during the Apollo era and those currently in use for spacewalks outside the International Space Station and will be worn by first woman and next man as they explore the Moon as part of the agency’s Artemis program. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
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.
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With LEGO I created the latest NASA spacesuit for the Artemis Program to land on the moon in 2024.
This 1:7 scale spacesuit has movable joints and exterior & interior details such as the portable life support system (backpack), rear entry hatch, and hollow torso. Do you like to get this fun-to-build set? Please support it on the LEGO website to make it a real set (10000 votes are needed in 1 year). Please help by supporting this idea on the lego website above, to celebrate the return to the moon!
This set also comes with 2 minifigs representing the "first woman" and "next man" on the moon in 2024- since the Apollo Program, these astronauts will go back to the moon for the first time in almost 50 years. In addition to the next man to Apollo, the first female moonwalk is planned in the Artemis Program, named after the twin sister of Apollo in the Greek myth.
Amy Ross, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, left, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, second from left, watch as Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing a ground prototype of NASA’s new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), and Dustin Gohmert, Orion Crew Survival Systems Project Manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing the Orion Crew Survival System suit, right, wave after being introduced by the administrator, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The xEMU suit improves on the suits previous worn on the Moon during the Apollo era and those currently in use for spacewalks outside the International Space Station and will be worn by first woman and next man as they explore the Moon as part of the agency’s Artemis program. The Orion suit is designed for a custom fit and incorporates safety technology and mobility features that will help protect astronauts on launch day, in emergency situations, high-risk parts of missions near the Moon, and during the high-speed return to Earth. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Took body measurements for our space suits today. I am 3 cm taller now than before launch.
Haben gestern Körpergröße für unsere Raumanzüge gemessen. Bin seit Missionsbeginn 3 cm gewachsen!
Credits: ESA/NASA
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R-6: Checking my space suit for the ride home
R-6: Check meines Raumanzugs vor dem Wiedereintritt in die Erdatmosphäre in unserer Soyuz Kapsel
Credits: ESA/NASA
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Have fun building the SpaceX spacesuit! Don't panic, it is not rocket (landing) science!
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Visor as a helmet option!
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You can run, but you can't hide... Not even in space!
Space Suit Surge comin' through, with removable backpack, Sniper rifle, helmet that moves (much wow), and WAIST ARTICULATION!
PS: Flickr, Y U make layout look like poop? Poop, i say, poop!
Cleaned out airlock, packed tool bags and configured our cameras. Space suits are ready.
Luftschleuse ausgeräumt, Werkzeugtaschen gepackt und unsere Kameras konfiguriert. Raumanzüge sind fit.
Credits: ESA/NASA
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ESA Italian astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Luca Parmitano made of lego!
This LEGO MOC was made possible my LEGO Ideas, "Brickheadz Astronautz". This set comes with customizable faces, detachable helmets, and unique baseplates. Make your own astronauts! Please support this LEGO idea at
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Base plates for my latest MOC-
Brickheadz Astronauts- NASA Spacesuits!
This set comes with detachable helmets, customizable faces (make your own astronaut!), spacewalk tools and space-themed base plates as shown in this picture. Check out my Flickr albums.
Please support this idea at the LEGO Ideas website!
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iss059e005614 (Match 29, 2019) -- NASA astronaut Anne McClain displays a spacesuit glove that is part of an Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or spacesuit, worn during spacewalks staged from the U.S. Quest joint airlock. A U.S. spacesuit glove consists of several layers for extra thermal protection and comfort. Thermofoil heaters are also attached inside each of the fingertips in one of the layers of the glove.
#AstroButch and I worked on the Fan-Pump-Separator (FPS to friends) of Terry's EMU spacesuit.
Credits: ESA/NASA
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iss058e011232 (Feb. 8, 2019) --- Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques works inside the Unity module performing preventative maintenance on the Simplified Aid For EVA Rescue (SAFER) unit that attaches to U.S. spacesuits. The SAFER would be used to maneuver an astronaut back to the International Space Station in the unlikely event they became untethered during a spacewalk.
“APOLLO GARMENT--Test subject wears Apollo overgarment designed especially for astronauts on lunar surface missions. The overgarment is worn over the Apollo space suit. Specially designed cover for backpack is not worn in this photograph.”
See page 34. A fascinating document:
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ILC-SpaceSuits-RevA.pdf
Credit: ALSJ website
Also note the interesting lunar overshoe design, this apparently being boot design no. 1. Excellent information regarding it, per the following extract from “Moon Boot: The story of the Apollo lunar overshoe and the race to walk on the moon”, by David H. Mather, published 2014 by “Space Effects”, UK:
“By mid-1964 continued development of the AX1L resulted in the A-4H suit which was supplied with heavy and restrictive thermal overgarments. This early prototype suit was notable for the fact that it featured the first of the three eventual and distinct lunar boot designs. The A4H boots were worn over the pressure suit and outer thermal protection, and took the form of slippers held on by Velcro straps. The thermally insulating sole was made of a composite material that consisted of a shoe bottom with 1” (25mm) spacers separating the bottom from the top portion. This created a raised platform and distanced the astronaut from the heat and cold of the lunar surface.”
At:
issuu.com/moonandspace/docs/moon_boot
Credit: issuu website
The above citation/reference in no way constitutes my endorsement of the book, although it does look pretty damned good to me.
Last, but NOT least, I think the test subject is Benjamin Cole, Hamilton Standard engineer.
Space Suits in the Russian airlock.
Raumanzuege in der russischen Luftschleuse.
Credits: ESA/NASA
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SpaceX Crew-1 astronaut in Brickheadz theme!
Check out the iconic helmet of the SpaceX launch and entey suit! Please support this idea on the lego website (link below). Thank you!
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The actual set idea is not specific to particular astronauts but includes many spare parts to make your own astronauts!
You wonder, of course, when you look at a human-shaped spacesuit with the visor down, if you are looking at a human, an almost-human, or five reptilian octopus creatures wearing one spacesuit. Thankfully, in this case, it's santa_sangre where the best thing I can say is that, if I am prey, she's been nice about it.
Lightpainting details: The gen3basic has a pattern that's intentionally reminescent the traveling-wave effect my neon tube would do. It was starting to flake out (need to do some further work on making it sturdier) and that's why it has a few gaps. I also had my lightpainting feather with the old 60 LED/M staff showing a checkerboard pattern using CircuitPython, except that it didn't read as a checkerboard the way I'd intended but in a new and interesting way.
Based on the NASA reports, the portable life support system (the backpack of the spacesuit) was made- with LEGO pieces. It contains oxygen tanks, carbon dioxide scrubbers, ventilation fans, cooling water pumps, batteries, and other essential equipment to keep an astronaut alive and comfortable in the spacesuit.
Of course the rest of the spacesuit was also build with LEGO pieces.
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“Technician inserts two inflight pens and a penlight in spacesuit pocket of Apollo 8 Command Module Pilot James Lovell about four hours before he was launched on a lunar orbital mission with Commander Frank Borman and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders. The Astronauts rode into earth orbit aboard a 363-foot-high Saturn V space vehicle following their launch at 7:51 a.m., EST, December 21, 1968. Apollo 8 is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s first manned launch using the Saturn V.”
Consider this, the FIRST manned flight of the most complex, most powerful rocket ever built.
Destination: the friggin’ MOON.
Steely-eyed missile men? The Right Stuff?
Yes indeed, and a WHOLE LOT more.
Awe inspiring.
Once in a lifetime.
May/may not be the same one. Interesting regardless:
historical.ha.com/itm/explorers/space-exploration/apollo-...
Credit: Heritage Auctions website
Even more interesting:
www.collectspace.com/news/news-073117a-apollo-penlight-ba...
Credit: collectSPACE website
airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/pressure-suit-a7-l-...
Credit: NASM website
Note that the name tab on the NASM suit appears to be “J LOVELL”, while the suit in the pre-flight photograph bears “LOVELL”. Most likely due to the original being removed after the flight, and given to Lovell, as I believe was the case with each mission, other than Apollo 11.
Neither here nor there; however, the name tab, U.S. flag and NASA/mission emblems are disturbingly faded, especially for wear only during Intravehicular Activity. Maybe some sort of conscientious conservation measures should’ve been started a whole lot earlier?
What do you think of a detailed spacesuit lego in the brickheadz theme? Customizable so you can make your own astronauts? Please vote for my lego ideas entry, "Brickheadz Astronautz"!
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In addition to the spare parts for customizable faces and hairstyles, this set ida comes with unique space-theme base plates and spacewalk tools based on the real tools in space.
There are two spacesuits in this set: the current NASA spacesuit, and the Artemis spacesuit for the lunar missions from 2024.
NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley, left, and Robert Behnken, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A during a dress rehearsal prior to the Demo-2 mission launch, Saturday, May 23, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley are scheduled to launch at 4:33 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 27, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Front View
Do you like a playable spacesuit lego set with detailed interior and exterior? Please vote for this legonaut on the lego website, to achieve 10000 votes and make it a real lego set!
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The NASA Artemis spacesuit will be worn by the first female moonwalker in 2024.
In this LEFO MOc, all the details are implemented, including the portable life support system (backpack) based on the real design of the NASA Artemis suit. Shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, hip, knees, and ankles are movable. The upper torso is hollow like real spacesuits.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, gives a thumbs up as Amy Ross, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, center, high fives Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing a ground prototype of NASA’s new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), after a demonstration of the suits enhanced mobility, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The xEMU suit improves on the suits previous worn on the Moon during the Apollo era and those currently in use for spacewalks outside the International Space Station and will be worn by first woman and next man as they explore the Moon as part of the agency’s Artemis program. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
NASA Artemis spacesuit in the LEGO classic space color theme (light gray, blue, trans-yellow).
Building instruction:
premade stock:
Squirrel:
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Spacesuit:
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flag:
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Earth:
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bubble:
The portable life support system is inside the backpack, which is also a hatch (door) to enter the spacesuit. The detailas are based on the real NASA spacesuit- exploration extravehicular mobility unit or xEMU for the Artemis Program (moon landing in 2024)
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Updated the torso structure of my LEGO Ideas entry, NASA Artemis Spacesuit!
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Tighter and more rigid, yet hollow like the real spacesuit!
In the Russian air lock, helping Max and Sasha with the ORLAN space suit fit check for their EVA on Wednesday.
In der russischen Luftschleuse, helfe Max und Sascha ihre Raumanzüge für die EVA am Mittwoch anzupassen.
Credits: ESA/NASA
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“Astronaut R. Walter Cunningham places the Seismograph down after walking 90 paces from the simulated instrumentation package.”
Above per the official NASA caption/description on the verso.
“REFLECTING ASTRONAUT—Astronaut R. Walter Cunningham in a Moon suit reflects scientists and engineers in his face cover as he goes through a given task to see how well the suit and the Astronaut can work…Cunningham places the Seismograph down walking 90 paces from a simulated instrumentation package. Cunningham was going through the exercises on the Manned Spacecraft Center grounds at Houston. The exercises were a rehearsal of tasks he is to perform at Bend, Ore., next week.”
Above per the Associated Press slug/caption affixed to the verso, with some sort of indestructible military-grade tape btw.
Based on the excellent information here...
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ILC-SpaceSuits-RevA.pdf
Credit: ALSJ (of course) website
...Cunningham appears (to me) to be wearing an International Latex Corporation (ILC) A-2L suit derivation, depicted as Fig. 2.19, page 25 at the above link, but not with the Gemini boots.
Check out those gloves…damn…no fine dexterity there, and that ankle "joint" looks uncomfortable. However, this was only 1964, and probably pretty damned good for then. ‘Project Management’/Building 2 is in the background.
Very informative:
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Credit: Ken Thomas/Facebook
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Always prepared. Reid Wiseman checking the space suits for our possible space walk in October.
Reid Wiseman überprüft die Raumanzüge für unseren möglichen Weltraumspaziergang im Oktober.
Credits: ESA/NASA
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A couple of Waterbury Haz Mat team members carry buckets of absorbent into Wolcott High School after approximately. 1 gallon of Nitric Acid was spilled in the chemistry lab. Chemistry Teacher Dr. Peter Carleton was preparing for an opening day of school demonstration when the mishap occurred forcing the school to be evacuated around 3:30 on Tuesday. The first day of school is Thursday for Wolcott students.