Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!monsoon.Berkeley.EDU!gwh From: gwh@monsoon.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Hydrazine Summary: Current Suits Leak Like Seives Message-ID: <39615@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 16 Nov 90 05:48:32 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: gwh@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert) Organization: The OCF Gang: Making Tomorrows Mistakes Today Lines: 22 In article Patrick.Hayes@cediag.bull.fr (Patrick Hayes) writes: >Excuse me? If the suits were permeable enough to let Hydrazine in they'd leak >O2 like a kitchen sieve. Additionally, how exactly would the hydrazine diffuse >into a positive pressure suit??? > >As long as He's got the suit on I don't imagine astronaut being in any danger, >however, If he gets coated with hydrazine, He might have problems taking it >off back in the shuttle. Having the unique position of being in a NASA-sponsored Spacesuit Design class here at UC bBerkeley, I feel the need to point out that the current Shuttle suit leaks aroudn 50CC/minute of atmosphere to the outside environment. Now, what it's made out of isn't particularly permeable to Hydrazine, but I would consider getting it on or near the current suit a very, very bad idea. As would most of the astronauts who will be using it. == George William Herbert == **There are only two truly infinite things,** == JOAT for Hire: Anything, == * the universe and stupidity. And I am * =======Anywhere, My Price======= * unsure about the universe. -A.Einstein * == gwh@ocf.berkeley.edu == ********************************************* == ucbvax!ocf!gwh == The OCF Gang: Making Tomorrow's Mistakes Today