How Do You Build Your Own Functional Pressure Suit? I started my first notebook on building my pressure suit in late 2008. Since then I have spent a lot of time building and testing my system--I ...

It’s certainly a neat experiment in making a filtered positive pressure supply and head cover with materials that are fairly common. If [Andrew] ever wants to move to a whole-body suit ...

The main function of the pressure suit was to save your life at the extreme altitudes, temperatures, and speed at which the SR-71 flew. Above 45,000 feet any crew member’s effective performance ...

Smith will make a suit for the Danish group this summer, and they’ll help him build a helium balloon craft. Traditional pressure garments can cost upwards of $30,000. Smith’s materials set him ...

The Space-X designed pressure suits were not equipped with their own oxygen supply or other life support equipment and relied instead on the 12-foot-long umbilicals to deliver air, power and ...