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Blood doesn't boil in space. The elastic nature of the blood vessels can maintain the 1 atmosphere needed to keep the water in blood liquid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_adaptation_to_space#Unprotected_effects

Space Suit vs. Spacesuit

OED lists space suit and space-suit, but not the compound word. Google returns 159,000 results for "Space Suit" and 128,000 results for Spacesuit. In my personal experience, I've seen the word in both forms from NASA sources, and the NASA Technical Style Guide does not specify.

I think there is a good case for either name, but personally think that space suit as two words is more common and proper, and should therefore be the main page, with spacesuit as a redirect.

Skylark 22:01, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It should possibly be at "Space suit", but certainly not at "Space Suit". Fredrik | talk 22:21, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Very true. Opps  :-/ Skylark 23:29, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

What about the HEV suit in half life? Isn't it worth a mention in the fiction section? It is a space suit, since Gordon wears it in Zen.

Good point but HEV was a hazardous environment suit, and Xen wasn't set in outerspace (there wasn't even any mention of Gordon donning a helmet).

[edit] The cost of NASA's suits?

Quoted from the article: "The suit weighs 47 pounds, and costs only a fraction of the standard $22 million cost for a NASA spacesuit."

They really cost 22 mil? Wow....Shadowrun 18:30, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Split

I propose splitting the "Spacesuits in fiction" section to a new article. It is long enough to stand alone, and it is largely unconnected with the specifics of real world space suits. With it on this article, the article becomes somewhat sprawling. A split would return focus to the article and help in the push to get to good article status. — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 20:02, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reverts of 3 Feb 2007

I have reverted numerous edits by User:Anthony Appleyard. These edits consisted of the addition of technically inaccurate information, reformatting and changing of existing text to be less accurate and more poorly worded and ordered, and moving the top image below the opening text, contrary to standard style and with no reason. After reviewing the series of edits, I reverted them in one edit automatically, which resulted in an edit summary with no explanation, so I am explaining my revert here. — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 17:12, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks for all your useful information about spacesuits.

These edits consisted of the addition of technically inaccurate information,

This presumably refers to me starting a new section about spacesuits' life-support systems, which there was nothing about before. If there are errors in it, please correct them.

reformatting and changing of existing text to be less accurate and more poorly worded and ordered,

In the existing types-of-spacesuits part, I provided more subsection titles to make the contents list more comprehensive, but I did not change the text wording. But there was no section about the ordinary all-flexible pressurized spacesuit, so I added one. I also moved the "alligator head" paragraph without altering it.

and moving the top image below the opening text, contrary to standard style and with no reason.

Having the big image in the big blank area alongside the contents list, is nearly at the top and makes it so the reader does not need to scroll so far down to find the start of the first titled section.
Anthony Appleyard 17:32, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

The "ordinary, all-flexible" suit you refer to doesn't exist. The suits used by NASA are of the mixed variety which is listed, with soft lower torso and arms, and a hard fiberglass upper torso. Even in suits with a "soft" upper torso, like ILC Dover's I-Suit, the torso is still rigid, despite being made of fabric. Even then, numerous suit components are hard, including the waist seal, shoulder bearings, and in the case of ILC's suit, the rear entry hatch. Virtually all spacesuit designs incorporating soft components are mixed suits. The article was technically accurate and complete without your addition, and I am removing it again. — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 17:43, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Your life support systems section is innacurate as well, and adds nothing to the article. Life support systems are described accurately at PLSS, which this article links to already. Open circuit systems are never used in space suits, this does not belong here. Liquid breathing is a science fiction concept which has never seen application in real space suits. I am removing the section, as there is nothing there to improve and keep. — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 17:47, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

The image at the top of the article belongs at the top of the article, next to rather than below the text, as it is in every other article. Please stop changing this for no good reason. For examples of this formatting with a longer ToC than this one, see Tree, Brain, Steel, etc. — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 17:49, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

The use of "as of year" links is very important to keeping WIkipedia up to date. By looking at which pages link to the year redirects "as of year", an editor can see what pages have particularly old or potentially out of date information. Please do not remove these links. — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 17:52, 3 February 2007 (UTC)