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The suits are maintained and tested before use to make sure that they are in good condition. In the unlikely event that there was a problem with the suit, then the astronaut would return to the safety of the vehicle. ---- Answer provided by Futron Corporation Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

... knew there was no gravity, but I mean, I had to fight with myself to undo my seatbelt. It was really weird. '''Wright:''' A little different from the KC-135. '''Cleave ... Yes, it worked. It really worked. I had to train really carefully because there are failure modes in the arm where it can start just moving. At that point—I think they fixed this, but at that point there were failure modes in the arm where it could start moving really rapidly, so I had to ...

... days, close the vents, backfill with oxygen to a third of an atmosphere, and then undo the seventy-two bolts, through an adapter section, of course, and let the crew come ... all that out of your mind. You get extremely focused, just as Kranz would say failure is not an option. Let’s focus on what we have to do now to ... we might have to bring you home.” The whole mission would have been a disgraceful failure. But we were docked. We were hard-docked, and from that point on, Houston was ...

... a problem. '''Butler:''' The Saturn certainly had an excellent service record. In fact, no launch failures on the Saturn. '''Gibson:''' Yes, it worked pretty well. So we were glad to be ... lip over it, so that what you had to do was to come in and undo it using a screwdriver from the side. I don't know if you've ever tried to undo a screw from the side with bulky gloves on and with someone holding your feet ...

... no-go condition to be able to continue the mission, because you’re maybe one failure away from inadvertently firing the SPS engine, which would be catastrophic. So with that indication ... box on the charger, they had that guy do a failure analysis on his box to determine is there any failure in his box that would cause that thing to do that ... the test sequence for launching the satellites, it started going through the flight sequence and undoing latches. It turns out at the pad the lines were not hooked up to the ...

... , and you had to maintain triple containment. And so the question was, how can you undo this valve that you had to take this cap off. Once you take the cap ... product that they got in the end. As far as I know, there were no failures or problems with any of those missions. The crews performed very well. I was pleased ... had redundant systems, then the wiring path had to be redundant and separate so the failure of one wire in a system would not fail the wire in a redundant system ...

... me. Thus I rode on the manipulator arm and used a long socket wrench to undo the bolts on the old gyros. Story could then install them as I tightened the ... -extracted the instrument, checked the connectors, and tried again. In case of a total instrument failure, we could have reinstalled WF/PCI. Luckily, WF/PC II checked out fine. My next ... High Resolution Spectrograph in order to provide a redundant power path in case of future failures. When our tasks were complete, it was time to start preparing the telescope to be ...

... a period of time, to keep everybody interested, it turned into a whopping number of failures. At the end, we only did one thirty-hour, and then the rest were all ... others were off doing whatever. The astronauts were out in the vehicle, going through the undoing of the launch. So I just started doing that and then finding out what happened ...

... , with 40% reduction in TV rates. ''(Text)'' New York Times editorial urged President Nixon to "undo a mistake and strike a blow for the more rational ordering of Federal spending priorities ...

... who is less imaginative, or more inclined to wear his emotions on his sleeve, will undo much of this work. This will not do much harm to the American space programme ...

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