re: On wearing canvas suits and why...
Thanks, one of the problems April doesn't mention is the faceplate hemispheres keep receiving scratches in the front that are vertical and deep. I believe this is people taking rocks and other objects and touching them to the helmet to see them better.
One thing I saw on a video of work at MDRS was a fellow using a rock hammer in the way most people with gloves on do here. Which is to hold your left hand under the rock being hit to catch it. In a real pressure suit where death is possible nobody sane would do that...would they? I can see after a hundred days on Mars an injury just like that. They puncture their left glove and lose blood and that hand...