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From: dsmith@hplabsb.UUCP (David Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle fashions
Message-ID: <4891@hplabsb.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 88 18:42:28 GMT
References: <1256@ncspm.ncsu.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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In article <1256@ncspm.ncsu.edu>, jay@ncspm.ncsu.edu (Jay C. Smith) writes:
> 
> On the first four shuttle flights orange pressure suits were worn.  While
> training for STS-26 I noticed the crew wearing more "NASA-looking" blue
> pressure suits.  Now I see the crew at the Cape wearing the old orange ones
> again.

At the time of STS-1, news coverage said the orange suits were the same
type worn by SR-71 pilots.  They stopped using them because the Shuttle
was "operational".  (More operational than an SR-71?  Hmmm.)  I didn't
see any blue pressure suits, just blue jumpsuits.  On the news a few days
ago, I heard that the astronauts had said that their new partial pressure
suits were not comfortable.  That would suggest that the new suits are
not SR-71 full pressure suits.
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			David Smith
			HP Labs
			dsmith@hplabs.hp.com