Oh yes. I'm familiar with this suit. It's called the MIT BioSuit. Unlike other spacesuits of the past which provide the minimum atmospheric pressure needed for well, survival, the MIT BioSuit provides the pressure through mechanical counter pressure. For those of you who don't understand such terms, its really, really skintight.
Although this may resemble science fiction, this is an artist depiction of a possible space suit of the future. Many aerospace accomplishments were forged in the minds and imagination of science fiction.
I always thought it was weird that the GeoComTex employees in this episode wore the American flag on the wrong shoulder considering the star placement.
Five Episodes: Dalek
“That’s our new frontier out there, and it’s everybody’s business to know about space.”
—Christa McAuliffe
1975 NASA concept art by Don Davis takes us to a future space colony in the form of a “Stanford torus” that can house tens of thousands of humans. It was first proposed in a 1975 NASA study at Stanford University where experts gathered to speculate on designs for future space habitats. Using centrifugal force, a doughnut-shaped torus structure that is 1.8 km in diameter could rotate once per minute to provide between 0.9g and 1.0g of artificial gravity on the inside of the outer ring. A system of mirrors would direct sunlight to the interior to make it the well-lit paradise you see here. (NASA)
You don't have to believe in your government to be a good American... You just have to believe in your country.
George W. Bush, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
The Apollo Soyuz Test project was the first docking of an American spacecraft to a Soviet one. With the historic docking occurring in July of 1975, the mission was the last flight of the Apollo Command and Service module, and the only flight of Mercury 7 astronaut Deke Slayton, who had been grounded from the Mercury and Gemini programs as a result of a heart murmur. American spacecraft would later dock with Russian spacecraft once more when Commander Hoot Gibson docked Space Shuttle Atlantis to the Russian Mir space station in the mid 1990s as the beginning of the Shuttle-Mir program. The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and NASA would later work together once more not too long afterwards to build the International Space Station, a merger project which originally was two separate space stations called Mir-2 and Freedom as well as the planned European and Japanese modules onboard Freedom, and Canadian hardware such as the Canadarm (no seriously, that's legitimately what it's called).
This picture is a wee bit confusing…and possibly a little disturbing. :)
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