On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:59:30 +0100, Mike Williams
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>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.
Why would you want to, when you can buy an actual used space suit for
$10-20 thousand? And if you're skeptical about the used ones, Orbital
Outfitters will sell you a new one for a reasonable price - they aren't
saying how much, exactly, but I know some of their customers and they
aren't *that* rich.
Sure, NASA spends ten million or so per, but the only thing that really
tells you is that the commercial price is going to be somewhere under a
million, possibly very much under a million.
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