Si Fuller3d ago

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.

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 Drye

@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)

Apr 1 at 1:55pmWeb
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* 😅