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  RD&PE Zvezda JSC - Space Suits
The СК-1 full-pressure space suit, complex of life support systems and survival means provided for cosmonaut safety under any environmental conditions of all flight stages and after landing.
Further development of space suits and portable life support systems was the equipment developed for A.Yeliseyev and E.Khrunov who performed a transspace walk from "Soyuz-5" to "Soyuz-4" in 1969.
For the first time these space suits were tested in space by cosmonauts A.Grechko and A.Gubarev, and the fourth space suit modification ("Orlan-M") is still the main means to support all nations cosmonauts' EVAs in the "Mir" OS and is planned to be used in the International Space Station.
www.zvezda-npp.ru /english/04.htm   (388 words)

  
  Sokol space suit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sokol space suit (Russian: Cокол, Falcon) is a type of Russian spacesuit, worn by all astronauts and cosmonauts that fly on the Soyuz spacecraft.
Chinese space suit worn by [[Yáng Lìw� i]] during the Shenzhou 5 space flight.
Sokol space suits, including ones flown in space, were first sold by Sotheby's at an auction devoted to Russian space history in 1993.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sokol_space_suit   (1915 words)

  
 Space suit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A space suit is a complex system of garments, equipment and environmental systems designed to keep a person alive and comfortable in the harsh environment of outer space.
Space suits are also used when dealing with certain types of biological hazards.
Comic-strip space story authors often do not know about the effects of internal pressure inflating the spacesuit in space, but draw the spacesuit in space hanging in folds like a boilersuit: that can often be seen in the Dan Dare stories.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spacesuit   (1553 words)

  
 Space Suits
The suit was taken to 17 torr (25.6 km) pressurised to 11.1 km.
The suit was made of several layers of canvas and rubber, with a metal collar to fit a cylindrical metal helmet with square view ports.
The Chibis suit was in use from 1971 (Salyut 1) to the ISS era.
www.astronautix.com /craftfam/spasuits.htm   (5963 words)

  
 paige16   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A space suit has at times been called a miniature spacecraft or spaceship, emphasizing its purpose of keeping its wearer alive while traveling in the vacuum of outer space.
The space separating all astronomical bodies is characterized by a vacuum better than any experimentally produced on Earth, by the 2.7 K flbody radiation left over from the Big Bang that created the Universe, and by cosmic rays, which include ionized atomic nuclei and various subatomic particles.
The vacuum of outer space is not really empty, it is sparsely filled with interesting things: several dozen organic molecules discovered to date by microwave spectroscopy, 2.7 K flbody radiation left over from the big bang and the origin of the Universe, and cosmic rays, which include ionized atomic nuclei and various subatomic particles.
paige16.blogdrive.com   (1568 words)

  
 Space Suits and Space Foods: Cosmonaut Training, Star City, Russia
Moving around inside a space suit is really, really hard work and accomplishing special tasks is almost impossible for a beginner.
The Sokol suit is worn inside the Soyuz and is also equipped with a variety of life support systems.
Each Space Suit Adventure also includes a tour of the Astronaut Training Center and a real earth lunch of non-space foods served in the cosmonaut dining hall.
www.incredible-adventures.com /space-suits-space-foods.html   (536 words)

  
 Mir Space Suits
U.S. astronaut Norman Thagard wore this space suit as the first American to be launched on a Russian spacecraft.
He arrived at the Mir space station aboard Soyuz TM-21 in 1995 and spent almost four months there as a member of the Mir 18 crew.
he Sokol ("Falcon") space suit was designed in the early 1970s to protect cosmonauts during launch and landing or unexpected emergencies.
www.nasm.si.edu /exhibitions/gal114/SpaceRace/sec500/sec552.htm   (270 words)

  
 Space suit -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Spacesuits are commonly used in the Gundam anime metaseries, but are often renamed to avoid confusion with space-use mobile suits (which are said to take their names from the fact that they are mechanically mobile evolutions of spacesuits).
In the Universal Century timeline, spacesuits are called "normal suits", while the After Colony timeline uses the term "astrosuit".
Gundam spacesuits often feature a pouch full of adhesive strips, used to temporarily seal tears in the suit or cracks in the helmet (as demonstrated in Mobile Suit Gundam and Char's Counterattack respectively).
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Spacesuit   (1469 words)

  
 The flights of Korabl-Sputnik 4 and 5
V.P. Efimov of the space suit manufacturer Zvezda describes his experiences during the recovery of Korabl-Sputnik-5 in (5).
But there were many puzzling things about this picture: the queer orange-coloured suit with a mysterious helmet on his head; the multitude of slings stretching out from his shoulders towards a large bright-coloured canopy, its apex sitting right under the crown of a great fir tree.
Efimov then goes on to describe that the villagers were upset with the paratroopers for not being allowed to come to the rescue of the person in the space suit.
www.svengrahn.pp.se /histind/sputnik910/sputnik910.html   (1593 words)

  
 Brian Walker, Rocket Guy: Space Suit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This is a Sokol (Russian for "Hawk") KV-2 Emergency suit.
This is a suit that is worn while the Cosmonauts travel into space, going to the Mir, or now for the International Space Station.
The large blue knob is for adjusting the internal pressure of the suit.
www.rocketguy.com /rocket/space_suit.html   (338 words)

  
 Russian Sokol Space Suit from the Science Center Space Collection
The SOKOL space suit was designed in the early 1970s to protect cosmonauts during launch and landing or unexpected emergencies.
The SOKOL Space suit has an attached pressurized hood with hinged plastic visor securing to a blue anodized aluminum clavicle flange, trussed sleeves with adjustable articulating cables in upper arm and webbed belt lashings.
The KV type suit was strictly designed for launch and landing protection against rapid cabin decompression however in an emergency the Soviets claimed it could be used for EVA to transfer from one disabled spacecraft to another.
www.hightechscience.org /sokol_suit.htm   (485 words)

  
 Russian Sokol Space Suit from the Science Center Space Collection
The K-type suit was the 1st variant of the SOKOL series introduced in 1973 as a result of the Soyuz 11 tragedy.
A valve in their Soyuz Decent Module malfunctioned at the moment of separation from the orbital module, and all of the air escaped from the capsule resulting in the deaths of all onboard.
The K type suit was strictly designed for launch and landing protection against rapid cabin decompression however in an emergency the Soviets claimed it could be used for EVA to transfer from one disabled spacecraft to another.
www.bsa-science.com /sokol_suit.htm   (435 words)

  
 Austria 2005
SpaceTime Austria 2005 was conducted as part of the World Space Week and the Long Night of the Museums and designed to make up for multi-facetted event featuring both a space conference and exhibition for the general public.
Co-organised by the Austrian Space Forum (http://www.oewf.org), the State Secretary for Innovation and Research of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology and the European Space Agency, supported by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency and Austrospace, the event was a major success.
Presented in 4 x 5 m Mars diorama, the visitors were invited to operate the smaller one, via onboard cameras to drive through the artificial craters and rocks.
www.spaceweek.org /austria_2005.html   (431 words)

  
 Rusadventures - Russian Museum Tour: Space History
There are: the first artificial Earth satellite; the first scientific satellite, the first dog in space; the first artificial Moon satellite; the first monkey in space; the first interplanetary automatic station; the first probe, which were sent into space; the first spacecraft; and the first burnt descent module (capsule) are here as well.
Sokol space suit and ORLAN extra-vehicular space suit and another.
The Museum of RSC Energia is the most interesting and one of the richest collections on a space theme in Moscow, in Russia and in the world.
www.rusadventures.com /tour25.shtml?tour=25   (757 words)

  
 Ninfinger Productions: 1998 IPMS/USA National Photos
Space fans around the world will be thrilled with the new space exhibit in Stockholm this summer.
The core of the exhibit is the Lost in Space collection of over 5000 toys and space artifacts assembled by a Swedish collector in the 50's and 60's.
The two space suits are displayed near a 12 foot model of Mir that is highly detailed.
www.ninfinger.org /~sven/models/mot_manen/motmanen.html   (710 words)

  
 New Scientist SPACE - News - Space tourist instigates a costume drama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The fourth space tourist to visit the International Space Station next October will be Char Aznable, ace fighter pilot from cult Japanese anime series Gundam.
Space Adventures, the company that is arranging the trip, has no problem with Enomoto's sartorial intentions.
"For launch and re-entry, he'll have to wear the usual, protective Sokol space suit," she said.
www.newscientistspace.com /article/mg18825252.700.html   (308 words)

  
 [14.0] Stepping Up The Pace
The most prominent of the four offices, Manned Space Flight, was to have gone to Abe Silverstein, but he decided he'd had enough of Washington DC and went back to the NASA Lewis Center as its head.
Vostok 4 was supposed to stay in space as long as Vostok 3, but Popovich's mission ended a day early when he said he was "observing thunderstorms", which ground control interpreted as the prearranged codephrase for a bout of spacesickness.
Dolgov was wearing a full Sokol space suit and his jump was to test its integrity; he punched out at 28,640 meters (93,970 feet).
www.vectorsite.net /tamrc_14.html   (7185 words)

  
 Wired 13.04: Psst - Wanna Buy a Slightly Used Soviet Space Suit?
There could be hundreds of custom suits in existence, twice as many sets of gloves, thousands more headsets and suit liners, and 115 spacecraft.
Driving the Russian space trade is a slippery supply chain of quasi-government operatives, ex-KGB officers, and Russian mafiosi.
Pearlman's two-bedroom Houston apartment, which is located across the street from the Johnson Space Center, is jammed with museum-quality glass cases displaying everything from Russian gloves to a piece of a US space shuttle wing.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/13.04/space_pr.html   (2099 words)

  
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CST The first crew exchange aboard the International Space Station is complete now that Susan Helms has moved her custom-fitted Soyuz seat liner into the Russian return vehicle about midnight CST today.
Just after completing the transfer, Helms, who calls Portland, Oregon, home, floated into an interview with three Portland-area television stations wearing her Sokol space suit, which she would use in the unlikely event the crew needed to return home in the Soyuz capsule.
Discovery and the International Space Station remain in excellent condition, orbiting Earth at an altitude of approximately 235 statute miles.
quest.arc.nasa.gov /space/news/2001/03-14.txt   (430 words)

  
 HobbySpace - Space Shopping
Portions of cremated remains of the deceased have been launched to space as a memorial and tribute to their lives.
This space shop is oriented towards businesses who would like to obtain space-related promotional items such as "pens, watches and space food or the equipment of your stand personnel with astronaut overalls or the supply of an original SOKOL space suit."
Space Island Group Store - T-shirts, videos and other items from the Space Island Group project to build a space hotel from shuttle external tanks.
www.hobbyspace.com /Shopping   (2105 words)

  
 ESA Human Spaceflight | Users » Welcome To Our Website
Past and present space missions and ground research activities related to the use of these facilities are included.
For a full overview in printed form on the ISS and its utilisation you are invited to download a pdf-file with the complete International Space Station European Users Guide and of the special ISS Users Guide for Earth Observation (preliminary version).
Detailed scientific information concerning all ESA sponsored space research activities since the early 1970's can be accessed through the Erasmus Experiment Archive.
spaceflight.esa.int /users/index.cfm?act=default.page&level=11&...   (320 words)

  
 Thagard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This was the second flight for the Orbiter Challenger and the first flight with a crew of five persons and first American flight with a woman crewmember.
In 1992, Dr. Thagard was selected to represent the United States as the first American to fly in the Russian space program, serving as the cosmonaut researcher for the Russian Mir 18 mission.
He is a frequently sought-after space analyst, serving recently as an analyst for ABC and CNN, and has appeared frequently on CNN, CNN International, and CNN Headline News.
www.amfcse.org /Board/thagard.htm   (1226 words)

  
 Biographical Data
Thagard resumed his academic studies in 1971, pursuing additional studies in electrical engineering, and a degree in medicine; was selected as a NASA astronaut and upon completion of an internship in internal medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, reported to Johnson Space Center in July 1978.
Thagard was the first to use intravenous administration of the drug, Phenergan, in the successful treatment of Space Motion Sickness.
The mission, which began from central Asia, ended at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, with a landing aboard the Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis on July 7, 1995.
home.att.net /~kthagard/pages/bio.htm   (1506 words)

  
 mot manen
A stuffed Bjelka, its space suit and the capsule that carried it with Strejelka into space.
These were the last pictures I took, at left one of the several exhibits about the influence of space travel on fashion, at right several items related to spaceflight and its influence on design.
A month before I had been in Washington DC and at the Air and Space museum there was a similar titled exhibit, which covered the subject better then in Sweden.
www.ninfinger.org /~sven/models/mot_manen/jmotmanen.html   (900 words)

  
 SOKOL Space Suit Mirror
These types of mirrors are used by cosmonauts on their suit to be able to observe areas on their back.
This particular mirror was worn on the sleeve of cosmonaut Gennady Ivanovich Padalka during the Soyuz/MIR TM-28 mission from 8/13/98 to 2/28/99.
Here is Cosmonaut Vladimir N. Dezhurov, Expedition 3 flight engineer, wearing a Russian Sokol suit while his Soyuz spacecraft is docked to the International Space Station (ISS).
www.hightechscience.org /sokol_mirror.htm   (216 words)

  
 Zero-G- Flights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The COP experience is customized to give you an appreciation for what a cosmonaut trainee undergoes during his or her months of unique training prior to a flight to the International Space Station.
Sokol Space Suit— Try on the space suit used for launch and re-entry and learn about its mechanics, history, and why it is vital to the lives of each crewmember.
Once suited, you will commence your out of this world “space walk” with the help of your scuba specialists and audio communication with your head trainer from mission control.
www.spacetourism.de /cosmonaut_training.html   (2193 words)

  
 Russian Sokol Space Glove from the Science Center Space Collection
Pham was the first Asian cosmonaut in space on the Soyuz 37 which was launched on July 23rd, 1980.
The K type suit was the first variant of the SOKOL series introduced in 1973 as a result of the Soyuz 11 tragedy.
Here is what the gloves look like when attached to a complete Russian SOKOL Space Suit.
www.bsa-science.com /sokol_space_glove.htm   (462 words)

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