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> Same with the suit design, looks like an awful low budget sci-fi film. Or a high budget sci fi film, or a medium budget sci fi film, since literally every fi

> Same with the suit design, looks like an awful low budget sci-fi film. Or a high budget sci fi film, or a medium budget sci fi film, since literally every film involving a spacesuit ever made had a more reasonable design than the utterly ridiculous, cumbersome, and bulky Hamilton Standard design American astronauts were stuck with for such a long time.

Rebelgecko 6y ago
Wasn't the Hamilton Standard suit for EVAs? I don't think the ones they wore today are comparable, they're more of a replacement for the "pumpkin suits"
- justin66 6y ago
  I thought they were both designed by Hamilton Standard. If not, my bad. I don't think I'd want to stick up for any of the older suits as being aesthetically, or much more importantly, functionally, being as good as they should have been. Of all the possible critiques of SpaceX, an attack on the new space suits is a genuinely weird one.
  - rtkwe 6y ago
    I don't know it might just be that it's different from any other suit but it looks like they got stuck between wanting a more modern clean design and the fact that it's real middle aged men that need to wear and move in them and they just look weirdly boxy with the big white expanse on the front and back of the torsos. Look at these for example they're just very square and empty. It's mostly just that older suits [0] and scifi suits [1] have painted a picture of there being more stuff involved in a suit to break up the expanse of the torso and the back, so they look weirdly plain. I bet they're perfectly fine functionally, and the single port seems like a good idea, but the do kind of miss the mark for me aesthetically. Also really hope they figure out how to make flexible necks work because this [2] video of them trying to look to the top of their rocket looks so uncomfortable. [0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/ACES_STS-130.jpg/800px-ACES_STS-130.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/AC... [1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/19/16104004/science-fiction-space-suit-worst-best-the-martian-alien-sunshine-gravity https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/19/16104004/science-fiction-... [2] https://youtu.be/rjb9FdVdX5I?t=5819 https://youtu.be/rjb9FdVdX5I?t=5819

Rebelgecko 6y ago

Wasn't the Hamilton Standard suit for EVAs? I don't think the ones they wore today are comparable, they're more of a replacement for the "pumpkin suits"

justin66 6y ago
I thought they were both designed by Hamilton Standard. If not, my bad. I don't think I'd want to stick up for any of the older suits as being aesthetically, or much more importantly, functionally, being as good as they should have been. Of all the possible critiques of SpaceX, an attack on the new space suits is a genuinely weird one.
- rtkwe 6y ago
  I don't know it might just be that it's different from any other suit but it looks like they got stuck between wanting a more modern clean design and the fact that it's real middle aged men that need to wear and move in them and they just look weirdly boxy with the big white expanse on the front and back of the torsos. Look at these for example they're just very square and empty. It's mostly just that older suits [0] and scifi suits [1] have painted a picture of there being more stuff involved in a suit to break up the expanse of the torso and the back, so they look weirdly plain. I bet they're perfectly fine functionally, and the single port seems like a good idea, but the do kind of miss the mark for me aesthetically. Also really hope they figure out how to make flexible necks work because this [2] video of them trying to look to the top of their rocket looks so uncomfortable. [0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/ACES_STS-130.jpg/800px-ACES_STS-130.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/AC... [1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/19/16104004/science-fiction-space-suit-worst-best-the-martian-alien-sunshine-gravity https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/19/16104004/science-fiction-... [2] https://youtu.be/rjb9FdVdX5I?t=5819 https://youtu.be/rjb9FdVdX5I?t=5819