Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pdn!steve
From: steve@pdn.UUCP (Steve Fowler)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle fashions
Message-ID: <4277@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 88 13:14:41 GMT
References: <1256@ncspm.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: steve@pdn.UUCP (0000-Steve Fowler)
Organization: Paradyne Corporation, Largo, Florida
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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.  Did they decide that the orange ones were better for use in actual
>flight due to their high visibility (which would help in possible rescue
>operations)?
>

The NEW suits are pressure suits. The astronauts upto this  point
have  not used a pressure suit for lift off and landing.  The new
suit will protect the astronaut in the event of an  abandon  ship
emergency.  The  new  escape system installed on the shuttle will
allow for a high altitude escape from the shuttle on landing  and
the  pressure  suits are needed for that. Why they went from blue
to orange is anybodies guess. The blue  ones  seems  to  be  used
while the astronauts are in space and for ground activities.

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