#372: Spacesuits!
Apr 11, 2024•36 min•Ep. 372
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Episode description
Ryan Scirocco is the spacesuit business development lead at Collins Aerospace. Collins, an RTX business, is, along with its partners ILC Dover and Oceaneering, developing a new generation of spacesuits for NASA. Ryan discusses everything that goes into keeping people alive in a freezing zero-gravity vacuum far outside the biosphere.
Topics include:
- A spacesuit is a mini-spaceship
- Space: it wants to kill you
- Spacesuit history
- What’s new? No more mirrors!
- Testing spacesuits on the vomit comet
- The ISS, the Moon, and beyond
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