Re: cheap lunar gear & base (spin-off of superhero flight)

Wasn't it Leonard Erickson who wrote:

>Third, cheap pressure suit for any visitors she might haul up there.

Definitely not. Space suits will never be cheap. You can't convert 
something like a deep sea diving suit into a space suit because it will 
end up like a suit-shaped balloon. The guy inside can't bend the arms 
and legs because the pressure inside the suit is forcing it into a 
preferred configuration.

The best you might be able to achieve for a reasonable price is some 
sort of rigid container, like a toughened zorb ball or an iron lung. 
However, they're not going to be cheap either, and the iron lung exceeds 
your carrying capacity.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure