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Elon Musk reveals first official photo of SpaceX space suit
The Verge ^ | August 23, 2017 | Thuy Ong

Posted on 08/24/2017 10:20:44 AM PDT by EveningStar

Elon Musk has posted the official first photo of his SpaceX space suit on Instagram, teasing that more details will come in a few days. Musk says the suit actually works, and was tested to double vacuum pressure. The suit itself is very white and very spacey, and Musk acknowledges that it was “incredibly hard” to balance the suit’s look and its function.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science
KEYWORDS: aerospace; aviation; elonmusk; spacesuit; spacex
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To: TXnMA
I'm just fine with the first example, the stripes are perpendicular to his upper arm. But, lest there be any confusion ...


21 posted on 08/24/2017 11:30:10 AM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: real saxophonist

I stand corrected


22 posted on 08/24/2017 12:02:10 PM PDT by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: NorthMountain

Thank you for showing unequivocal examples! ‘-)


23 posted on 08/24/2017 12:05:27 PM PDT by TXnMA (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Treat George P. Bush like Santa Ana at San Jacinto!!!)
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To: fishtank

White is beautiful,I mean........!


24 posted on 08/24/2017 12:24:30 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Dr. Ursus

...or reflective rather than absorbent.


25 posted on 08/24/2017 1:24:37 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: EveningStar

It’s very cute. I wonder how it’ll hold up in an explosive decompression.


26 posted on 08/24/2017 2:23:23 PM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: Artemis Webb
From what I can gather it’s a misleading term. What is being postulated online is that the standard internal pressure of the suit was doubled while in vacuum to test against bursting.

Sounds correct. Probably a 29.4 psi pressure differential, rather than normal sea level of 14.7 psi.

27 posted on 08/24/2017 6:13:07 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: al baby

Also has been referred to as a “charging flag”...


28 posted on 08/24/2017 6:48:39 PM PDT by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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To: TXnMA

The stripes look cross-hatched to me — That’s probably a photo artifact. I’m quite sure that they’re actually horizontal.


29 posted on 08/24/2017 6:53:24 PM PDT by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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To: al baby

I had the same question, Is the flag backwards?


30 posted on 08/24/2017 7:16:04 PM PDT by crabpott (' we are living in the strangest, most perilous, and unbelievable decade in modern memory' VDH)
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To: NorthMountain

Thank you. Just never noticed before.


31 posted on 08/24/2017 7:19:07 PM PDT by crabpott (' we are living in the strangest, most perilous, and unbelievable decade in modern memory' VDH)
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To: EveningStar

No astronaut in their right mind would put that suit on.


32 posted on 08/24/2017 8:05:45 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: EveningStar
My inner nerd wants space suits like this.


33 posted on 08/24/2017 8:12:25 PM PDT by wastedyears (Iron Maiden can't be fought)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Probably twice standard atmospheric pressure or 29.7 psi inside against a vacuum outside, or three times standard atmospheric pressure or 44.1 psi inside to standard atmospheric pressure outside. Consider that the pressure in most automobile tires is about 32 psi.


34 posted on 08/25/2017 1:34:44 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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