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The authors will provide both the reader with an appreciation of spacesuits and US suit efforts, through development challenges to their role in space exploration. The text will explain how the routine use of clothing provides a link to the function of spacesuits and why spacesuits are far more than garments. They are a last refuge for survival in disaster or a personalized spacecraft that allows direct contact and interaction with everything beyond our world. Successfully meeting the challenges to creating safe, reliable and comfortable spacesuits is an ongoing effort that has spanned over four decades.
The book will detail the technical evolution of U.S. spacesuits from their roots in high altitude aviation and vacuum tube development to the present day, with an additional look into the future. This primary source of spacesuit information will explain the function, historical development, and use of spacesuits from a worldwide perspective in a readable way.
The story includes many technically and historically interesting efforts that never reached flight, and were either misunderstood or not widely reported.
Customer Reviews:
Dressed for Space.......2007-09-11
This is a highly detailed book on the history of the development of US spacesuits. The book covers not just operational suits used in the space program, but also prototype development to test various concepts.
Compared to Russian spacesuit development, it is apparent that the US was able to expend considerably more in development of designs and resulted in a much richer array of design ideas. Particularly interesting is the issue of joint mobility, especially with gloves.
The illustrations are good, although I personally would have liked more details on the actually engineering of the suit components. Although I understand cost constraints, this book would have benefited from clear color photos of the suits and components, rather than just B&W. However this is a nit pick to what is a very informative book.
"Fly me to the Moon..........2007-03-12
...and let me play among the stars..."
But how to dress for such jaunts? In theory the idea of a space suit is as old as the idea of spaceflight itself. Actual manned spaceflight is four and a half decades old, but there has been a need for protective suits for high-flying pilots for quite a lot more more than half a century now. And here is the development history of these different garments for gentlemen and nowadays also ladies to wear at any function inside and outside the walls of a spacecraft. Here they all are, from the Imperial German Flying Corp Oxygen Pipe System, ca 1918, to the University of Maryland MX-2 suit prototype of 2002. All the more than 100 designs in almost bewildering detail, with specifications of most of them, thankfully, in both imperial psis and BTUs and (albeit within parentheses) metric measurements. Spacesuits have come a long way, but there is still way to go, before us normal gents and our ladies will feel comfortably dressed for a little play in weightless space or a stroll on the lunar surface. Indeed a "must" book for any aficionado and armchair astronaut!
Great Reference!!!!.......2006-03-10
This book is a great book and a Great companion to Springer-Praxis other space books, especially the volume on Russian Spacesuits and "Spacewalks". It has taught me so much that I never knew and I loved the many pages written about conceptual designs.
Spacesuit Information.......2006-02-18
For a book on a techncial subject, it appears to be well laid out and easy to read. I liked that it took the time to explain the basics surrounding spacesuits. Finding accurate information on spacesuit, their development, use and program history is difficult. This book, like "Russian Spacesuits" from the same publisher, was written by career spacesuit engineers and the text seems to reflect that depth of knowledge.
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SKYJACKED!
One minute Kip Russell is walking around his own backyard, testing out an old space suit and dreaming about going to the moon–the next he is the captive of a space pirate and on his way to the very place he had been dreaming of. At first, the events are so unreal he thinks he might be having a nightmare . . . but when he discovers other prisoners aboard the spaceship he knows the ordeal is all too real. Kip and his fellow abductees, the daughter of a world-renowned scientist and a beautiful creature from an alien planet, have been skyjacked by a monstrous extraterrestrial who is flying them to the moon–on a journey toward a fate worse than death. . . .
Have Space Suit–Will Travel is the newest addition to the Del Rey Imagine program, which offers the best in classic fantasy and science fiction for readers 12 and up.
Customer Reviews:
A Great Read for 14 and Up.......2007-10-04
This is a good interduction to Robert A Heinlein for the younger set. Read this and you will become a fan and will want to read more. Enjoy this for what it is a good read.
Utterly perfect.......2007-09-07
I recently gave this book to my ten-year-old to read and he pronounced it "the best book ever". (Yes, he has read Harry Potter, his previous favorite.) Having re-read it myself, for at least the tenth or twelfth time, I can't disagree. Like all great books, its themes are so universal, it would require only minimal editing to be published today.
Have Spacesuit Will Travel.......2007-05-07
I've probably read this book six times over the course of my life, first when I was thirteen. I still enjoy it as an adult. It's a great present for sixth grade birthdays. The story takes you from a regular boy in high school wishing he could go to the moon and leads you much further, further out, one step at a time. He wins a spacesuit, and that 's how his space travel and encounters with aliens begins.
Laura
A brief comment.......2007-02-27
Although considered one of his juveniles, Heinlein cleverly concealed a lot of more adult themes in these books (such as the no-nonsense marital advice in The Star Beast)--often dispensing valuable advice about the importance of good old fashioned values, especially hard work, discipline, integrity, loyalty, friendship, personal responsibility (especially civic responsibility), getting a good education, and other important qualities that young people needed to learn about.
This book is no different, and when the main character wins an old space suit in a contest and puts in a lot of time and effort to repair and recondition it, his industriousness "pays off" when he serendipitously gets involved in an improbable but fascinating drama of intergalactic proportions (he ends up visiting one of the Magellanic Clouds). Some of the most interesting parts of the book are the comparisons between the various alien races in regard to their observing proper morality and values themselves, although the security council meeting at the end of the book makes it clear that right or wrong, humanity will be exterminated if they pose a threat to the rest of the galaxy.
In that sense, the book anticipates the movie, "The Day the Earth Stood Still," and it's preachy but dire message, by ten years. But Heinlein, always more than a little ahead of his time, had an uncanny gift for sensing the winds of change. Most of the science in the book was far enough in the future so that very little of it seems dated, and like many of Heinlein's books it has stood the test of time and is still worth reading today.
HAVE SPACE SUIT-WILL TRAVEL.......2007-02-26
Although dated (and what isn't dated today), this is another great book by Heinlein. I remember finding this book in the school library when I was a kid and never forgot reading it from cover to cover. Now I am sharing it with my kids. Great adventure!
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As sites of race riots, shrinking swimsuits, and conspicuous leisure, swimming pools reflect the tensions and transformations that have given rise to modern America.
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A Social History of an Unusual Aspect of America.......2007-05-30
Here comes summer, and Americans will head for a trusted way of getting rid of stress and heat: they will jump into swimming pools. But pools themselves have been a source of stress to many communities within the nation; indeed, Jeff Wiltse has written a history of the social tensions pools have caused (and sometimes eased) in _Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America_ (University of North Carolina Press). It is surprising that what might seem a trivial subject, a pastime in which millions of Americans have innocently indulged for over a hundred years now, might even have a history. But Wiltse, who teaches history at the University of Montana, has driven from town to town to draw information for this book. His travels were mostly in the north, for he did not want to range too far and write separate regional histories, although he says the pattern of social use of pools is consistent within the towns he surveyed. He amassed a huge amount of data from newspapers and civic documents about who was using the pools, with statistics often kept by race and sex. Wiltse has shown beyond doubt that pools have reflected and generated our feelings on sexual and racial matters, and although his book is a serious academic history, it is by turns amusing and sad as America came to an incomplete understanding of how we ought to treat pools and the swimmers who use them.
We didn't have pools originally, going down to swim in the river or "the old swimming hole". The swimmers often had no running water at home and this was a way for them to wash away some bodily grime; their Victorian betters strongly agreed with bathing for this purpose, but not with the way it was being accomplished. The problem of how to get those underclass clean without letting their pastoral cavorting offend others resulted in a solution, the first municipal bathing pools. Remarkably, there was not racial segregation in these initial pools. Pools changed again when they became not centers for training but locales for play. The huge pools were viewed as resorts, places where a family might come on vacation, and they had sand around them for artificial beaches. Pools had been segregated by gender, but these were not; because of fretting over what might happen if white women saw athletic black bodies, or if blacks started appreciating the displayed bodies of white women, racial segregation of pools began. There was violence in many cities when black people tried to use the pool. The way one city after another attempted to exclude black people in different ways makes for uncomfortable reading.
Desegregation eventually happened, but the victory turned out to be Pyrrhic. As blacks were admitted, white swimmers stopped going to the public pools, and so it became easier for cities to reduce maintenance on the pools, which fell into disrepair and were closed. Cities had financial crises in the 1970s, further reducing pool budgets, and have never started up another building surge. White swimmers went to private pools or home pools, and Americans aren't putting a high value on public recreation as much as they used to. Suburban communities are building water theme parks, which are busy places for kids, but do not foster the socialization that families used to find around a public pool. It may not have worked out to be the best outcome for either blacks or whites, but that's the way history works out sometimes. Wiltse's readable history gives a surprising outlook on important aspects of American culture, and shows that swimming pools are far more consequential than you'd expect.
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THE Space Suit Book.......2006-06-23
This book covers a lot of territory and is essential to learning the fundamentals of space suit engineering. Not only does Mr. Harris trace the history of the space suit, he also discusses practical engineering matters. This book contains rare photographs in addition to drawings by the author that illustrate the space suit components, assemblies, and concepts. I have read most other popular books on space suits, but this one packs the most information by far. This book is logically segmented and can be used as an excellent reference. For a true appreciation for the challenges of space suit engineering, this is the book to get.
Read and learn a LOT.......2006-03-24
If you want to REALLY learn a lot about the development of suits, the technical tradeoffs and see how the bidding process and internal conflicts helped and hindered the US suit evolution, BUY THIS BOOK.
Hardcover is the choice, as you'll read this over and over. There's a lot here, you'll want to read it in installments. Rockets are flashy, but spacesuits protect the men that went into space.
I work for Caterpillar and understand the advantage (and trade-offs) of choosing a set technical path / solution and how this impacts the later generations of any product.
An Excellent Book on EVA Suits.......2006-01-18
Mr. Harris has written an excellent book on the history of the EVA suit. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in the design of EVA suits and how they got to where they are today. Mr. Harris goes into enough detail to allow you to understand how the various suits work (both pros and cons) but not so much as to bore the reader. For those who want more detail, there is an extensive list of resources in the book. In short, if you want to learn about EVA suits, buy this book and read it.
The Origins and Technology of the Advanced Extra-Vehicular S.......2003-04-16
The author also outlines the intricate procedure followed by NASA in contracting a space suit. NASA doesn't select a space suit; it selects a conractor. It involves a whole range of considerations such as cost, integration of the PLSS and suit, who were the contractor's key personnel, design and test philosophy of the contractor, certfication method, prior experience, who the subcontractors were, scheduling and delivery, and how compatible the suit system is with the spacecraft. In addition, blatant national political factors more than likely affected contractor selection; how much money was NASA already spending in the respective states of the suit competitors, who were the states' representatives and did NASA owe the representative any potical favors?
This volume is Bible of the space suits, covered in over 500 pages in fine print. It addresses almost all issues relating to the EVA suit in one volume. It is perhaps the only source book of space suits. It is rare occassion that an entire volume of the AAS History Series is devoted to a single topiuc, which indeed is an honor to the author. In Indian context, may be the ISRO has no plans to design a space suit, since there are no plans of any manned space mission as of today, but eventually it will have. This book will serve as a reference in design specification and technical details of the various types of EVA suits and their suitability for a particular mission.
Bound in blue hard cover as usual, the book has a illustration of the Litton RX-5A hard suit being demonstrated on a simulated lunar surface.
The Bible of Space Suits.......2002-06-22
Gary Harris wrote the most precise and complete space suits book ever. I thought I knew some about space suits design, but after reading "The Origins and Technology of the Advanced Extra-Vehicular Space Suit" I learned a lot more. This book is so interesting and passionate about the history and development of advanced EVA suits. Full of good photos and explanatory drawings it is a MUST for any serious reader interested in space suits. The book also cover technical issues, so it is useful for the engineer, scientist and student.
I predict this book will become a classic for life support systems and EVA engineers in the years to come.
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From the earliest days of flight, design of comfortable yet protective flying clothing has proved almost as great a challenge as the creation of airplanes and spacecraft. With more than 150 illustrations, this volume shows how researchers and designers culled life-saving ideas from sources both expected and obscure: deep-sea divers' equipment, pressurized inner tubes, tomato worms, and medieval armor.
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To Me Not Worth The Price.......1999-12-26
Was disappointed...Though very informative not many pictures of actual flight worn spacesuits. Would have been great to see pictures of museum displays and some color photos would have been a nice addition.Hardly any photos of actual astronauts.
A readily available reference on the US space suit.......1999-03-13
Unlike Lloyd Mallan's "Suiting Up For Space", this book is currently in print.It has plenty of photos of Apollo, and Shuttle suits. It also has plenty of photos on aborted space suit projects of the 1960's and 70's. However the quality of the text does not match the richness of the photos. The text is rather topical and seems to deal with the spaceflights themselves rather than the development of the space suit worn on the mission. It tries awfully hard to be the space equivalent of C. G. Sweeting's definitive works on USAAF flying gear and clothing:"Combat Flying Clothing"and "Combat Flying Equipment". "Outfitting the Astronaut" seems only to wet the reader's apppetite for more meatier narrative on the development of the space suit. I did find the chapter on suit preservation at NASM though.
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Russian spacesuits is a unique contribution to space science. The authors, part of the original Zveda team that manufactured spacesuits for the first Russian space flights, still play an integral role in spacesuit research and development. Thus there is no-one better to describe the technical innovations of the past 40 years, which enabled Gagarin's first flight in 1961, the first space walk in 1965 and the Mir missions of the 1980s and 1990s, and which have culminated in today's International space Station. The authors also describe how the political climate within the Soviet Union and internationally has affected the development of the space programme and their work. Many documents are published for the first time that, together with photographs, detailed descriptions of the events of the time and the authors' personal memories, provide a fascinating review of a previously unknown aspect of space science
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Dressing for vacuum.......2007-09-11
Spacesuits should be of renewed interest with the upcoming private space tourist ventures.
I bought this book after I had the opportunity to examine, hands-on, a Russian SOKOL rescue suit. What struck me was the sheer simplicity of the design and I wanted to know more about this suit.
This book provides much of that background, plus that of the famous Orlan EVA suits and others in the history of the Russian space program.
Compared to the related books on US Spacesuits (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration), it is remarkable how different Russian suits are, and how much more conservative their designs are. Russian suits, like their spacecraft are relatively stable designs undergoing incremental improvements, probably in response to the much fewer resources available to them for development.
The book covers the development well, although I did not notice any mention of ideas borrowed from US suits, whereas the book on US spacesuits has a wry mention of the remarkable similarity of some US suit components to Russian ones.
As with the US spacesuit book, the same comments on the lack of color illustrations and technical details apply.
Suits for the Space Pioneers.......2007-03-12
In Russia, the need for suits to be worn in the upper atmosphere, developed in the 1930:ies, engendered the suits to be used in spacecrafts, outside spacecrafts and on the Moon. Naturally, the use of a protective garment inside the space cabin was the first usage, Juri Gagarin wore such a garment on his historic flight. Even today the protective garment is the iconic spacesuit, which we see Cosmonaut wearing as their uniforms for the trip off the Earth. Suits for extravehicular activities, EVA, are quite different. The Soviet Union, of course, never made it to the lunar surface, but had a cosmonaut, probably Alexei Leonov, made a landing, he would have been dressed for the occasion. After all, the first Space Walk ever was also a first testing of a garment to be worn on the Moon, by the man who was supposed to wear it!
The space suit technology, as developed in the Soviet Union, was even applicable to our canine friends, some of which did ballistic flights into space dressed more or less like the dog Milou in Hergés "Tin-Tin on the Moon". Thus we know where to turn if we want to walk our dogs on the Moon.
When Westerners started to fly in space alongside the Soviets, later Russians, in Saljut, Mir and International Space Station, it was as had inhabitants from different planets met. Now we may appreciate all those differences in technical culture as exemplified in the space suits of the Cosmonauts. There is, of course all the common ground resulting from like problems demanding like solutions, but overlying we see these subtle differences arising from different technical and engineering usages of two different cultures.
The book is co-authored by some of the actual developers of space suits in the then Soviet Union, later Russia, and thus as authoritative on the subject as can be. Fascinatingly, also, the historical developments inside the Soviet Union/Russia and internationally, reflect in much that the space suit developers had to contend with.
The scope of common activities betveen the Russians and the West European ESA was news to this rewiewer. We also note, that the Chinese "taikonauts" wear protective suits designed by the nowadays "Zvezda Development and Production Company". We also read of the challenge of rendering original technical texts in Russian into readable English, and concomitant difficulties inherent in the fact that, not only is translation of language required, but even the transliteration from one system of letters, i.e. Cyrillic, into our Roman alphabet poses its own problems and pitfalls. On the whole, the endeavour has been crowned with success. The system of measurements are, thankfully, the same on both sides of this barrier of language and glyphs.
All in all fascinating facts from a space program now slowly opening itself to inquisitive Western eyes. Great hopes for the future is embodied in the prospects of joint developments of the advanced spacesuits for space station EVA and the lunar and martian surfaces.
Russian Spacesuits.......2004-03-27
This is an excellent book with details not before shown outside the formerly closed confines of the old Soviet space program, except in various technical society papers. It has many excellent b&w photos and diagrams of Russian spacesuits from the SK-1, used for Vostok, up to the most modern Russian investigations of Mars EVA suits. The text is somewhat general in content though well written. It is also done in the typical style of Russian/English transliteration. Readers in the West, if they have not previously read any Russian technical papers, may find the transliteration hard to follow at times; but, this does not detract from the value of Mr. Ibramov's good work. If I had any complaint about the book it would be two items. First, the book lacks some technical detail in specific areas, so it sometimes creates more questions than it answers. If I did not already have a background in pressure suits some explanations would have confused me. The inclusion of a few explanatory drawings could have avoided this. Second, while the book gives credit, for the first time, as to which designers at Zvzeda created various general concepts, it does not often shed light on specific contributions, or the dynamimics involved in individual contributions. Nevertheless,I recomend this book. It is a MUST for your library. If the reader wants a technical look at Russian spacesuits I recommend "Pressure Suits and Systems For Work In The Open Cosmos" by Abramov, Severin, Stoklitsky and Sharipov. It is, however, a nearly impossible to find textbook.
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HAVE SPACE SUIT-WILL TRAVEL.......2007-02-26
Although dated (and what isn't dated today), this is another great book by Heinlein. I remember finding this book in the school library when I was a kid and never forgot reading it from cover to cover. Now I am sharing it with my kids. Great adventure! Great times with my kids!
One of my favorites.......2006-11-22
It's been almost four decades since I read this book, but still whenever some particulary heinous episode of human idiocy appears in the news, my mind throws out a mental footnote quoting the teenaged hero's passionate defense of humanity before an interstellar tribunal deciding whether to wipe away Earth. Depsite the hokey title and its "juvenile" status, it has lots to offer.
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