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Re: Single-person spacecraft: FlexCraft
« Reply #40 on: 04/17/2014 04:03 pm »
Thanks Thought so.  What is a MCP?

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Re: Single-person spacecraft: FlexCraft
« Reply #41 on: 04/17/2014 04:10 pm »
Thanks Thought so.  What is a MCP?


We've already "solved" the spacesuit issues but no one is making them:
"Mechanical Counter-Pressure Space Suit"
http://quest.nasa.gov/projects/spacewardbound/australia2009/docs/Waldie%202005%20MCP-Paper.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_activity_suit

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15828639

The problem is that while it's been shown the MCP suits work and should work just as well if not better than "standard" balloon suits there is a lot of technical and institutional inertia for continuing to use the "standard" suits. So the majority of "work" has been directed to finding ways to "attach" MCP gloves to gas-balloon suits. Needless to say the "success" of doing so hasn't been great.

For deep-space and long-term orbital operations such as construction or other labor intensive work the flex-craft looks like a good start on what's needed. It's extremly difficult to see anyone using a "back-up" standard suit inside one of these though...

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Re: Single-person spacecraft: FlexCraft
« Reply #42 on: 08/16/2014 11:02 pm »
Well I made one for Orbiter:

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Re: Single-person spacecraft: FlexCraft
« Reply #43 on: 10/24/2014 03:43 pm »
I found this.
http://spirit.as.utexas.edu/~fiso/telecon/Griffin_3-27-13/Griffin_3-27-13.pdf

Interesting it shows the flexcraft being docked to the aft dock. 

I am working on a Skylab II for orbiter.

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