Space suits, which are an extension of underwater suits, have a long history in both fiction and real life. Project RHO has a pretty interesting pictorial history of the space suit that include a bit of both fact and fiction.
The page includes photos from NASA and illustrations from the pulp magazines. It’s a pretty interesting [...]
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Space Suit History
Shooting Off Into Space
Once upon a time — it was 1866 — Jules Verne wrote an adventure story in which a group of Americans build a large cannon to shoot the first men to the Moon.
Later, Sir Isaac Newton developed a thought experiment that placed a cannon on a very high mountain that, with the right amount of [...]
