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EspañolPRESSURE SUIT
Gordon Cooper in a helmet and pressure suit,
A 'pressure suit' is a pressurized suit worn by high-altitude pilots who may fly so high that even breathing pure oxygen at surrounding pressure would not provide enough oxygen for them to function: see hypoxia.
One type of pressure suit is a spacesuit, which is designed to operate in complete vacuum.
Pressure suits are also used to provide mechanical loads simulating gravity for long trips in micro-gravity, such as aboard a space station.
The Penguin prophylactic body-loading suit has been in use since 1978 by Soviet and now Russian cosmonauts.[1]
Joe Walker in an early Air Force partial pressure suit
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References
1. http://www.astronautix.com/craft/penguin.htm
External links
★ Pilot's Protective Gear
★ Pilot Life Support in the U-2 / TR-1 aircraft.
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