Spacewalk anniversary today !

Raoul — 6/3/2008 6:20:30 PM (archived)

Today's current spacewalk: Fossum and Garan:

http://i44.servimg.com/u/f44/11/54/40/66/temp133.jpg

43 years ago!! Edward White: first US sapcewalk

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/spacewalk_gem4_big.jpg

No one ever died during a spacewalk; it remains the ultimate human experience!!
I'm not sure though if spacesuits have changed that much, in 43 years. Yes, they allow for 10 hours long spacewalks and astronauts are cooled by liquid...But how about spending a full day inside it?

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Spacewalk anniversary today ! - Raoul - 6/3/2008 6:20:30 PM
- Gemini Spacesuits PRIMITIVE - carl - 6/3/2008 10:20:46 PM
  - re: Gemini Spacesuits PRIMITIVE. - Primitive, but apparently effective and worthy to evolve! - Marcia - 6/4/2008 5:42:49 PM
    - The faceless white knight on the top of the world ! - Raoul - 6/4/2008 6:05:02 PM
      - re: The faceless white knight on the top of the world ! - Marcia - 6/4/2008 6:25:33 PM
        
        re: Spellcheck: 'Grieve". - Marcia - 6/4/2008 6:28:16 PM
- Happy birthday to me - Robert - 6/3/2008 9:29:47 PM
  - re: Happy birthday to me - Laurie Street - 6/4/2008 9:45:51 PM
  - Thanks everybody - Robert - 6/4/2008 7:30:22 PM
  - re: Happy birthday to me. - Happy Birthday, Robert!!!!! :) (n/t) - Marcia - 6/4/2008 5:43:49 PM
  - re: Iconic images - Raoul - 6/4/2008 5:45:10 AM
  - Did they show White's spacewalk live? - Socrates II - 6/4/2008 2:34:15 AM
    - Apollo 7 was the frst live TV transmission from space - Raoul - 6/4/2008 5:38:10 AM
      - Cooper's Faith 7 TV broadcast was a first for the US anyway (n/t) - Delbert - 6/4/2008 6:42:13 PM
      - First TV was on Mercury's "Faith 7" flight by Gordon Cooper - Delbert - 6/4/2008 3:21:19 PM
        
        Replying - Raoul - 6/4/2008 9:14:59 PM
      - I think it was the Soviets who were first: August, 1962. - Jacob - 6/4/2008 1:48:10 PM
        
        Perhaps.... - Raoul - 6/4/2008 5:31:40 PM
    - Nope, no video then - Robert - 6/4/2008 3:04:40 AM
      - re: Nope, no video then - Delbert - 6/4/2008 5:20:41 AM
- Kibo: huge!!! - Raoul - 6/3/2008 9:29:20 PM
  - re: Kibo: huge!!! - Thank goodness for a good hatch and 0-G!!! (n/t) - Marcia - 6/4/2008 6:43:21 PM

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