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I’m skeptical of an astronaut being able to survive re-entry in a spacesuit.
Anyone ever hear of SuitSat I?
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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=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.
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Check the MOOSE, 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.
Ok, I found the mother lode, check out the EGRESS, ENCAP, and specially the Paracone and SAVER.
[QUOTE=Ale]
Ok, I found the mother lode, check out the EGRESS, ENCAP, and specially the Paracone and SAVER.
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excellent! Thanks.
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
[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…
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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.”
