Si Fuller

In the 1930s, the British Interplanetary Society developed the world's first space suit. This is a replica of what would have been a functional suit (as best the science of the day could predict), not a fanciful costume.

People, we could have had moon knights.

Mar 30 at 7:35amWeb
Show threadSue Archer3d ago

@si_fuller

Excellent also, that he's carrying a shooting stick, for a nice sit down when he's tired.

Show threadStuart Longland (VK4MSL)3d ago
@si_fuller Moon-knighting as astronauts.
Show threadcuan_knaggs3d ago
@stuartl @si_fuller the moon knights who say ni
Show threadAlexander Knochel3d ago
@si_fuller cylon detector goes brrr
Show threadUtarg of Utarg 🔬🇪🇺🇸🇪🇬🇧🇺🇦3d ago
@si_fuller Very 80s era Cylon.
Show threadPaul Drye3d ago
@si_fuller See also Alexander Leydenfrost's illustration for "Next Stop The Moon" in Collier's magazine, Sept 7, 1946
Show threadUlrik Nyman ⬡3d ago
@si_fuller @tomscott video from 2021 about the British space suit.
https://youtu.be/jYgiV4Iz7I0?si=yhMbulBVRoGHCzV-
The long-forgotten history of the British moon spacesuit

YouTube
Show threadDizzy 0069 Stiff Assed Crip 3d ago
@si_fuller "By your Command" 😀
Show threadProjektMyra1d ago
@si_fuller #Cybermen
Show threadBin1d ago

@si_fuller The world's SECOND space suit, that was the first:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratonautical_space_suit

Show threadPaul Drye1d ago
@Bin @si_fuller If we're going that route, Wiley Post's suit for the same purpose pre-dates this one by a year.
Show threadBin1d ago
@pauldrye @si_fuller What route?
Show threadPaul Drye1d ago

@Bin @si_fuller Sorry, that came off more aggressive than I intended. What I mean is pressure suits that could have dual-purposed as spacesuits but were designed for stratospheric ballooning.

(Coincidentally, I'm researching the pre-WWII stratospheric ballooning "race" between the US and USSR for a book I'm writing about the 1945-57 period of rocketry)

Show threadBin1d ago
@pauldrye @si_fuller no worries. I understand, but I guess that that suit was designed as spacesuit but only tested as stratospheric suit because of the civil war in Spain
Show threadBin1d ago
@pauldrye @si_fuller PS. Just talking by heart (and zero 'spanish pride'; I'm spanish but from a region -country- with distinct culture, Galicia).
Show threadPaul Drye1d ago
@Bin @si_fuller All my family is Scottish (and not English!) so I understand *perfectly* 😅
Show threadWinchell Chung ⚛🚀1d ago

@si_fuller

Yes, Space Knights. NASA was also looking into that. Read about King Henry's space suit

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacesuits.php#henrysuit

Show threadWinchell Chung ⚛🚀1d ago
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Show threadAnthony Horton1d ago
@si_fuller I've seen that mock-up in person! It's at the UK National Space Centre, in Leicester. It is very cool.