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From: petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle fashions
Message-ID: <2344@phred.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 88 15:20:36 GMT
References: <1256@ncspm.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis)
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In article <1256@ncspm.ncsu.edu> jay@ncspm.ncsu.EDU (Jay C. Smith) writes:
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>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

Jay, the blue suits they normally wear are not pressure suits. They are 
flight suits. The orange pressure suits were used for ground tests only.
They will wear the flight suits for actual missions.

Peter Jarvis - Physio Conrol - Redmond, WA.