Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/01/25/boeings-new-spacesuit-is-far.html
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Jesus that’s a huge goddamn leap ahead from the current models in use.
This is some 2001 level shit.
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“It’s so futuristic it reminds me of the technology we were supposed to have 16 years ago!” -Our human spaceflight situation in a nutshell.
For clarification, this is one of the suits astronauts wear in case of depressurization and not an EVA suit, right?
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Looks like a souped up White’s Fusion dry suit.
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I assumed it was EVA gear since they compared the weight to that equipment. May have misread that.
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Got that right.
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I’d expect it to be an indoors-only suit.
EVA “suits” aren’t really clothing; they’re better thought of as very small spacecraft.
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Even more bad ass with dark shade helmet
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What is the main difference if both need to protect the wearer from vacuum? Is it mostly just about where the life support system goes, or additional radiation shielding?
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Thrust-based mobility, micrometeorite protection, insulation against extreme temperatures and massive redundancy.
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Irreverence is my default. Especially when it concerns a corporation who meets its shareholder expectations through arms deals.
The space suit was anticipated closely by Mattel in 1970:
As for the spacecraft launch, who would not make the immediate leap of imagination…
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Major Matt Mason?
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That one’s not a standard feature though, is it? I thought most EVAs were tethered.
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This suit is more like the lightweight suits which were used by the entire shuttle crew during launch and re-entry. It isn’t intended to be used for EVA, and with more air pressure inside than outside it is probably not very mobile. Its just to keep the occupant alive for a while if pressure is lost in an emergency.
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Matt Mason’s comrade, Lt Jeff Long. He joined along with Sgt Storm, making two of the three other "bendy"astronauts.
There was also Doug Davis, who had a yellow suit. I always just called him “Frank Poole”, tho’.
Mason was around in '66 - before I was old enough. I don’t think the rest of the crew came in 'til the rounding of the decade…
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Boeing uses the term “get-us-home” suit.
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Those goddamn internal wire armatures and the shitty rubber expansion sleeves were always in a war for what would break or rot first.
Still some of my favorite toys until Micronauts came about.
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Nice - even in Mass Effect blue 
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Yup, optional.
EVA description starts around 14:30.
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Off Topic: Arms deals help pay for space R&D no doubt. Personally, I have a bad taste in my mouth for Boeing knowing that they are selling or trying to sell products to allot of bad actors in the world right now. Sometimes I suspect that that is why John McCain as Chairman of Armed Services committee has a raging bee up his ass when it comes to Boeing. Oh, and I almost forgot Boeing was the first to start building that dumb ass wall on the US Mexico border. You can bet your ass they are going to be trying again.
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