spacesuit
or space suit
a sealed and pressurized suit designed to allow the wearer to leave a pressurized cabin in outer space or at extremely high altitudes within the atmosphere.
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How to use spacesuit in a sentence
To make all that possible, the rover carries a stunning display of technology designed especially for Perseverance’s historic mission, from pieces of a new spacesuit to an autonomous helicopter, the first aircraft ever sent to another planet.
NASA’s new Mars rover is equipped with the first aircraft to fly on another planet | Rebecca Heilweil | February 18, 2021 | VoxUnlike a true spacesuit, it’s not designed to be tightly sealed off from the environment.
Those ‘gas masks’ at the Capitol were actually escape hoods | Rob Verger | January 11, 2021 | Popular-ScienceNo one has ever died because of a faulty spacesuit, but that doesn’t mean current models are perfect.
Current spacesuits won’t cut it on the moon. So NASA made new ones. | Neel Patel | December 29, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewA spacesuit is more like a miniature spacecraft you wear around your body than an item of clothing.
Current spacesuits won’t cut it on the moon. So NASA made new ones. | Neel Patel | December 29, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewFortunately, though, the flurry of new activity in space has meant we’re seeing more innovation in spacesuit design and performance than ever before.
Current spacesuits won’t cut it on the moon. So NASA made new ones. | Neel Patel | December 29, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
For exterior repairs on the outside of a ship in free fall a long way from any star, spacesuit One was the proper garb.
Unwise Child | Gordon Randall Garrett
British Dictionary definitions for spacesuit
/ (ˈspeɪsˌsuːt, -ˌsjuːt) /
any of various types of sealed and pressurized suits worn by astronauts or cosmonauts that provide an artificial atmosphere, acceptable temperature, radiocommunication link, and protection from radiation for work outside a spacecraft
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