MYTH YOUD EXPLODE IF YOU TRIED TO FLOATINSPACE WITHOUTWEARING ASUIT ORIGIN Let s start this book off with a bang But one that explodes a myth not a person This misunderstanding likely stems from the pressurized space suits astronauts wear These suits protect wearers from space's extremely low air pressure by creating comfortable air pressure inside We know from high altitude flights that bodies exposed to very low or no air pressure begin to swell among other
THE GOOD NEWS People with a leaky space suit or no space suit at all wouldn't swell and swell and swell until they exploded in space Basically their skin would hold them in The bad news They would pass out from lack of oxygen within seconds and die within minutes And over time their body would freeze or get a nasty sunburn A space suit weighs 3 N approximately 280 pounds 127 kg on the ground but in space TWEIGHS
