SpaceX's Starman Space Suit Capabilities.

The Starman suit is designed in such a way that the crew just has to plug in when they sit down. The suit is one part of the bigger dragon system it's part of the vehicle. The seat that the crew is in and the suit are in a lot of ways working together and the designing the dragon in-house means to also design the suit in-house it's built in Hawthorne California in the same building as the rocket and the capsule the spacesuit is custom made for each crew member and that is to optimize the fit for the crew member. The suit was designed to innovate and to look inspiring but the top priority was to be safe and reliable, the spacesuits primary purpose is to protect the crew in the unlikely event that the cabin were to depressurize. But, the suit does a number of additional things that provides cooling and communication to the crew inside of the suit. It also provides them hearing protection and the outer layer of the suit is flame resistant so it provides flame protection as well. When the crew gets in the capsule they get in their seats and they plug the suit into the umbilical that's attached to the seats and the umbilical is providing everything that the suit needs. So, it provides the avionics or electronics for communications and is providing the air to cool the suit and then it also provides gas when needed to pressurize the suit, so it's really a single point that lets the suit do all the things that it needs to do. The helmet is designed in-house and it serves a number of different functions, obviously it's protecting the crew's head and it's retaining gas like the rest of the suit, but it also houses the microphones as well as the valves that are regulating pressure in the suit. The gloves are designed such that they would work with the touchscreen so that the crew could use the touchscreen while they were in their suit. The gloves also does a number of other things like the rest of the suit and then they have to be able to work under pressure.

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