What do ISS spacesuits do? I know they provide an at atmosphere but do they have insulation? I’d guess not because there’s no atmosphere to cool you down, but what about depressurization?
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Space suits perform a whole lot of things.
The suit is heavily insulated. Because if it’s in sunlight, the side exposed to the sun is going to get very hot, because there isn’t an atmosphere to get in the way.
It also has a bunch of tubes with water running through it to cool down the astronaut and take away body heat.
~~The suit is also pressurized to earth normal pressure.
They used to keep it lower, but that involved the astronaut needing to do time consuming things to keep the nitrogen in their blood from killing them. So they stopped doing it for the most part.~~
Edit: was mistaken about pre-breathing.
Suits are kept at a pressure lower than earth normal pressure.
The astronauts need to do time consuming things to keep the nitrogen in their blood from killing them
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