Spacesuit: A History Through Fact and Fiction by Gooden Brett

Author:Gooden, Brett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / General
ISBN: 9780957689206
Publisher: Tattered Flag
Published: 2012-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

This cutaway diagram shows the basic structure of the pressure-retaining garment of the spacesuit worn by Gagarin and subsequent Vostok spacecraft cosmonauts. 1. hard-shell helmet, 2. helmet tethering cable and pulley system, 3. pressure bladder outer layer of Dacron for heat and abrasion protection and load bearing during suit pressurisation, 4. one of three pipes and cables joining the suit and the spacecraft life support system, 5. common connection junction between suit and spacecraft life support system, 6. second elastic layer, 7. blue rubber pressure bladder, 8. sky blue ventilation layer consisted of a lightweight porous material which supported a system of ventilation tubes for temperature regulation, 9. blue woollen comfort layer was worn next to the skin and incorporated the biomedical sensors, 10. the pressure tight socks were sealed to the pressure bladder, 11. black lace-up boots, 12. orange coverall, 13. removable pressure glove, 14. suit pressure regulator, 15. soft communications cap. (C.P. Umanski, Clothing of Cosmonauts 1982)

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