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From: hogg@db.toronto.edu (John Hogg)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Extravehicular Mobility Units
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.172417.24626@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 89 22:24:17 GMT
References: <37867@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <219@nwnexus.WA.COM>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
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In article <219@nwnexus.WA.COM> seans@microsoft.UUCP (Sean Shapira) writes:
>Would someone familiar with the STS-32 mission plan describe the 
>contingency which would require use of these "extravehicular mobility 
>units"?  

Space suits are flown on every mission.  The most obvious emergency
would be tile inspection and repair, if damage was suspected for some
reason.  An STS-32-specific problem would be a failure of SYNCOM to
properly deploy; a human could apply a Volkov-style kick to various
places, until the mechanism either worked or was *really* broken.

A Shuttle is complicated enough that many pieces could potentially
require in-flight inspection and repair.  Whether *two* suits are
worthwhile is another question.
-- 
John Hogg			hogg@csri.utoronto.ca
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto