My kid has been asking me what happens to austronauts if they take their suits off in space. I cant explain it properly since I’m not entirely sure too.
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Like you’re five:
Air is all around you. It is squeezing your skin.
When you breathe, little bubbles end up in your blood – so tiny you can’t see them – like bubbles in a soda bottle that’s sitting still.
To go to space, where there is no air, we need to keep those bubbles small, so we wear a suit inflated with air.
If you take off that suit, the little bubbles get bigger – just like opening the top of a soda bottle. When they get bigger, they can break open your arteries and veins – like a rapid bruise happening on the inside and outside of your body. This means in your skin, muscles, fat, bones, and organs. It will kill you.
This doesn’t even get into the idea that the air in your lungs would want to quickly leave your body and cause you to suffocate pretty quickly.
Add the need for keeping your body temperature normal and you realize these suits are super important!
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