IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Launch-Entry Suit (LES) was a ...

Although space suits, which differ from pressure suits in subtle, but important ways, have been well covered in literature, pressure suits have gone unheralded except as introductions to the space ...

(Original Caption) 1961- Wearing a high altitude pressure suit during tests in Republic Aviation's altitude chamber, a member of the Space Environment Laboratory checks his ventilation lines. The ...

Engineer and test pilot Miguel Iturmendi cleared a major hurdle in his effort to pilot his electric aircraft, Helios Horizon, into the stratosphere when the partial pressure suit that he will wear on ...

When a sealed, pressurized vessel (say, you) is exposed to a vacuum (say, space), things tend to get splattery—hence the exo-suits. These fifteen examples of atmospheric apparel from our friends at ...

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