Environmental suits Environmental suits The Advance Crew Escape System Pressure Suit or ACES suit, is a full pressure suit currently worn by all Space Shuttle crews for the ascent and entry portions of flight. The suit is a direct descendent of the U.S. Air Force high-altitude pressure suits worn by SR-71 Blackbird and U-2 spy plane pilots, and the Launch-Entry Suits worn by NASA astronauts starting on the STS-26 flight, the first flight after the Challenger Disaster. The suit is manufactured by the David Clark Company of Worcester, Massachusetts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Advance Crew Escape System Pressure Suit"
The A7L Apollo & Skylab spacesuit is the primary pressure suit worn by NASA astronauts for Project Apollo, the three manned Skylab flights, and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project between 1968 and the termination of the Apollo program in 1975. The "A7L" designation is used by NASA as the seventh Apollo spacesuit designed and built by ILC Dover, a pressure suit manufacturer located south of Dover, Delaware. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apollo/Skylab A7L"
An Atmospheric Diving Suit or ADS is a small one-man man-shaped articulated submersible that provides the "diver" with an environment at one atmosphere of pressure at any depth. It can be used for very deep dives, 600 metres / 2000 feet, for many hours without the normal hazards of depth, such as the decompression sickness and nitrogen narcosis. It solves most of the problems encountered by "ambient pressure" divers using breathing apparatus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atmospheric diving suit"
A clean room suit, cleanroom suit, or bunny suit, is an overall garment worn in a clean room. One common type is an all-in-one coverall worn by semiconductor and nanotechnology line production workers, technicians & process / equipment engineers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cleanroom suit"
A diving suit is a garment or device designed to protect a diver from the underwater environment. ...more on Wikipedia about "Diving suit"
An environmental suit is a suit designed specifically for a particular environment, usually one otherwise hostile to humans. An environment suit is typically a one-piece garment, and many types also feature a helmet or other covering for the head. Where the surrounding environment is especially dangerous the suit is completely sealed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Environmental suit"
A G-suit is worn by aviators and astronauts subject to high levels of acceleration in order to prevent loss of consciousness, commonly called blackout or G-LOC ( G-induced Loss Of Consciousness). Various shapes and sizes of the G-suit have been developed, but all current and past ones utilise compressed air to cause the suit to exert force on the lower body and legs during flight and flight manoeuvring subject to high G-force loading. The pressure prevents the wearer's blood from being forced to lower areas of the body, thus ensuring the brain is not deprived of blood (as such deprivation is the cause of blackouts). ...more on Wikipedia about "G-suit"
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A HAZMAT suit is an overall garment worn by people to protect themselves from hazardous materials or substances. The materials that make up the overall garment include heavy PVC or rubber and Tyvek, a paper-like material that has been treated to repel hazardous chemical, biological or radioactive materials. These suits may or may not include accompanying compressed breathing air supplies to aid the wearer with breathing under adverse conditions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hazmat suit"
The Orlan space suits are a series of semi-rigid space suits designed and built by NPP Zvezda for use in the Soviet space program and Russian space program. They are used for extra-vehicular activity (spacewalks). ...more on Wikipedia about "Orlan space suits"
A pressure suit is a pressurized suit worn by high-altitude reconnaissance 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. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pressure suit"
SK-1 is an acronym of Skafander Kosmicheskii # 1 is a space suit that was developed special for Yuri Gagarin. After his successful flight on Vostok 1 spaceship, space suits of SK series were also used for space flights of other cosmonauts on Vostoks. ...more on Wikipedia about "SK-1"
Skafander (from Greek words skaf - boat,ship and andros - man) is a term used by Russians to refer to standard diving dresses or space suits. ...more on Wikipedia about "Skafander"
A ski suit is a suit made to be worn over the rest of the clothes when skiing. A ski suit is made from wind- and water-resistant or water-proof fabric. It is usually made to keep the body warm, but the user often wears warm underwear too. Ski suits made for speed skiing and alpine skiing might be very thin and skintight, adding as little air resistance as possible to the body. A ski suit can either be one-piece, in the form of a jumpsuit, or two-piece, in the form of a ski jacket and matching trousers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ski suit"
The Sokol space suit ( Russian: Ѕокол, Falcon) is a type of Russian spacesuit, worn by all astronauts and cosmonauts that fly on the Soyuz spacecraft. It was introduced in 1973, and is still used as of 2005. The Sokol is officially described as a rescue suit, and it is not capable of being used outside the spacecraft in a spacewalk or extra-vehicular activity. Instead, its purpose is to keep the wearer alive in the event of an accidental depressurisation of the spacecraft. In this respect it is similar to the ACES suit worn by NASA's shuttle astronauts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sokol space suit"
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A space activity suit is a kind of spacesuit, which provides mechanical pressure by means of elastic garments as opposed to pressurizing the suit with the breathing gas, as is standard practice in regular suits. ...more on Wikipedia about "Space activity suit"
A space suit is a complex system of garments and equipment and environmental systems designed to keep a person alive and comfortable in the harsh environment of outer space. This applies to extra-vehicular activity outside spacecraft orbiting Earth and has applied to walking, and riding the Lunar Rover, on the Moon. ...more on Wikipedia about "Space suit"
A standard diving dress consists of a metallic ( copper, brass or bronze) diving helmet, an airline or hose from a surface supplied diving air pump, a canvas diving suit and boots. An important part of the equipment is the addition of lead weights, generally on the chest and boots, to counteract the buoyancy of the helmet and diving suit. ...more on Wikipedia about "Standard diving dress"
Strizh is a space suit that was developed special for crew of Buran space shuttle. ...more on Wikipedia about "Strizh"
A wetsuit is a protective garment used for watersports such as scuba diving, surfing, windsurfing, and triathlon. A modern wetsuit is mostly made from thin neoprene, which provides limited thermal protection for activities in cold water. It is usually lined with a nylon fabric to strengthen it and make it easy to put on and take off. Some newer wetsuits, usually marketed as "superflex," contain spandex in addition to neoprene to allow the suit to stretch (the panels of a wetsuit of this type typically contain 15-20% spandex). This counteracts neoprene's tendency to shrink with age; it also allows for some changes in the wearer's size without making the suit uncomfortable. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wetsuit"
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