Spacesuit History

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Question 1

What is the formal technical aerospace term for an extravehicular spacesuit operating as a miniature personal spacecraft?

Question 2

Which company, famous for manufacturing brassieres and women's undergarments, hand-sewed the Apollo A7L Moon spacesuits?

Question 3

Who was the Soviet cosmonaut who performed the first human spacewalk (EVA) in history aboard Voskhod 2 in 1965?

Question 4

What specialized undergarment laced with 300 feet of flexible plastic tubing circulates chilled water over an astronaut's skin?

Question 5

What gas-filled pressure bladder material was chosen to inflate Apollo and Shuttle spacesuits without ballooning into rigid immobility?

Question 6

What nitrogen propellant maneuvering backpack allowed astronaut Bruce McCandless II to float completely untethered in 1984?

Question 7

Why do NASA astronauts breathe 100% pure oxygen for hours before conducting a spacewalk from the ISS airlock?

Question 8

Which aerospace company was selected by NASA in 2022 to build the next-generation AxEMU spacesuits for the Artemis lunar missions?

Question 9

What chemical absorbent inside the Portable Life Support System (PLSS) backpack removes exhaled carbon dioxide?

Question 10

What emergency propulsion backpack is permanently clipped to all modern ISS spacewalkers in case they drift away untethered?

What is the formal technical aerospace term for an extravehicular spacesuit operating as a miniature personal spacecraft?