# would a pillow burn up on reentry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 22, 2007, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-pillow-burn-up-on-reentry/423547 "2007-10-22T06:18:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-pillow-burn-up-on-reentry/423547/41 "2007-10-23T22:32:15Z")
[QUOTE=Rico] I’m skeptical of an astronaut being able to survive re-entry in a spacesuit. Anyone ever hear of [SuitSat I](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuitSat)? [/QUOTE] Ok, that’s just awesome. Good to see that science hasn’t lost its sense of humout. Is it even conceivable to make a suit designed for reentry? With a big airbag around it or something? It wouldn’t be useful for spacewalks, of course. It would just be a parachute for outer space. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-pillow-burn-up-on-reentry/423547/42 "2007-10-24T00:53:13Z")
[QUOTE=Sapo] Ok, that’s just awesome. Good to see that science hasn’t lost its sense of humout. Is it even conceivable to make a suit designed for reentry? With a big airbag around it or something? It wouldn’t be useful for spacewalks, of course. It would just be a parachute for outer space. [/QUOTE] Check the [MOOSE](http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/moose_000923.html), there was another design I remeber, but I can´t find it right now. It was basically the same thing except that the heath shield was round, and IIRC wasn´t inflatable. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-pillow-burn-up-on-reentry/423547/43 "2007-10-24T01:07:20Z")
Ok, I found the [mother lode](http://www.astronautix.com/craft/mancraft.htm), check out the [EGRESS](http://www.astronautix.com/craft/egress.htm), [ENCAP](http://www.astronautix.com/craft/encap.htm), and specially the [Paracone](http://www.astronautix.com/craft/paracone.htm) and [SAVER](http://www.astronautix.com/craft/saver.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-pillow-burn-up-on-reentry/423547/44 "2007-10-24T02:38:53Z")
[QUOTE=Ale] Ok, I found the [mother lode](http://www.astronautix.com/craft/mancraft.htm), check out the [EGRESS](http://www.astronautix.com/craft/egress.htm), [ENCAP](http://www.astronautix.com/craft/encap.htm), and specially the [Paracone](http://www.astronautix.com/craft/paracone.htm) and [SAVER](http://www.astronautix.com/craft/saver.htm). [/QUOTE] excellent! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-pillow-burn-up-on-reentry/423547/45 "2007-10-24T07:43:46Z")
The suborbital dives from up to 100km will be the proving ground for the control and life support systems required for emergency re-entry systems from orbit. Plus adrenaline junkies are more likely to spend money repeatedly on jumping out of a spacecraft through the atmosphere. Si ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-pillow-burn-up-on-reentry/423547/46 "2007-10-24T15:27:14Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Badger] No, I just write like that. Bored, y’see. 🙂 The alternative was marking a whooole lot of newbie programmers’ first attempts at logic programming… [/QUOTE] Just wanted to chime in that I understood about 10% of your maths post, but enjoyed it 100%. Well done! I particularly liked: “More significantly, perhaps, it’s carrying some 31 megajoules of energy that must be dissipated in a non-conflagratory manner before it nestles to earth in a manner that supports crucial vertebrae while suppressing the causes of snoring.” 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-pillow-burn-up-on-reentry/423547.md?page=2)