Guest: Anthony Young. Topics: Spacesuits & pressure suits for suborbital flight and more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use. We do not permit the commercial use of Space Show programs or any part thereof, nor do we permit editing, YouTube clips, or clips placed on other private channels & websites. Space Show programs can be quoted, but the quote must be cited or referenced using the proper citation format. Contact The Space Show for further information. In addition, please remember that your Amazon purchases can help support The Space Show/OGLF. See www.onegiantleapfoundation.org/amazon.htm. For those listening to archives using live365.com and rating the programs, please email me as to why you assign a specific rating to the show. This will help me bring better programming to the audience. We welcomed Anthony Young back to the show to discuss the use of spacesuits in suborbital flight based on his Feb. 16, 2015 Space Review article, www.thespacereview.com/article/2695/1. During the first segment of our 1 hour 47 minute program, Anthony talked about his Space Review article and the Virgin Galactic accident from last year plus their goal of flying spaceflight participants in a short sleeve environment. We spent much of the segment talking about the pros and cons of using pressure suits as opposed to having a pressurized cabin and short sleeve environment. Anthony mentioned the other space vehicle programs and what he said were there plans to use pressure suits as opposed to non-pressure suit environment. Listeners asked him several questions by email. For example, BJohn wanted to know if the same spacesuit being talked about could be use for EVA purposes. Michael Listner took issue with Anthony comparing the early days of aviation to spaceflight saying the political, legal and media environment were completely different in the early days of aviation. He suggested that today a serious incident during a revenue-generating flight would raise a huge outcry and would probably kill the industry. Both Anthony and I disagreed with him on his conclusion. In the second segment, we talked about work being done on a new generation of spacesuits for the commercial space tourism industry and Anthony mentioned several spacesuit companies and developers. He also talked about the special training Felix Baumgartner had to have to avoid panic attacks in the suit. Listeners continued with email questions including one asking if any airline companies had looked into suborbital flight. John in Florida called to talk about efforts to lower the cost for spacesuits. Toward the end, Anthony addressed his latest Space Review article which was about Sarah Brightman going to the ISS later this year (www.thespacereview.com/article/2724/1). Please post your comments/questions on The Space Show blog. You can reach Anthony through me or his Space Review articles.
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