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Good luck to everyone! What an exciting time. Curious about the spacesuits and performance of the “minimal” touchscreen interfaces compared to the older stuff.
by manaskarekar 6y ago
Good luck to everyone! What an exciting time.
Curious about the spacesuits and performance of the “minimal” touchscreen interfaces compared to the older stuff.
- devindotcom 6y agoThe suits are just pressure suits, more for basic protection and temporary loss of pressure, not extended EVAs or anything. They do look pretty comfortable, though, and I think the audio and signal are better. The touchscreen interface is "different" - the astronauts talked a bit about helping SpaceX design it and the pros and cons of it in a recent interview. I wrote it up here but you can also check the original long NASA TV thing. https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/04/this-is-certainly-different-astronauts-on-controlling-the-dragon-spacecraft-via-touchscreen/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/04/this-is-certainly-differen...
- thepete2 6y agoI watched the "Everyday Astronaut" Youtube stream where he said that those are IVA suits (as opposed to EVA) and can only hold pressure for a couple of minutes, enough time for the capsule to return safely to earth in case of an emergency.