• Question: If you were to enter space without the required suit,what would happen?

    Asked by kenny13 to Aggelos, Andrew, Eileen, Naomi, Shane on 16 Nov 2012.
    • Photo: Aggelos Zacharopoulos

      Aggelos Zacharopoulos answered on 16 Nov 2012:

      @kenny13,
      I would die from one or all of the following reasons:

      – lack of oxygen
      – cold (if I was not exposed to the sunlight)
      – heat (if I was exposed to the sunlight)
      – fear

    • Photo: Eileen Diskin

      Eileen Diskin answered on 18 Nov 2012:

      Space suits are brilliant and serve several purposes, as Aggelos outlines.

      Did you see the video of that guy Felix Baumgartner doing his big skydive, from higher up than ever before? Even he had to wear a special spacesuit. Here’s a really good picture of it, with a description of what each of the bits did for him:

    • Photo: Andrew Jackson

      Andrew Jackson answered on 20 Nov 2012:

      im with aggelos.. i think fear would kill me pretty quickly in space without a suit! ugh… the panic would be horrendous

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