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Posted by Greg D. Moore \(Strider\) on August 8, 2007, 9:57 pm
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>I was looking at the schedule for this shuttle mission on the NASA site.
> Why is it that the two astronauts doing the space walks have to 'camp out'
> in the airlock beforehand?
The shuttle and ISS operates at 14.7 PSI.
The space suits at a much lower pressure. In order to allow more time for
N2 to leave the body, they camp out at a lower pressure (I forget how low, I
think it's around 10PSI) so the pre-breath time in the space suit is even
shorter.
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> Why is it that the two astronauts doing the space walks have to 'camp out'
> in the airlock beforehand?