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While experts are arguing who – Russia or the United States – is now ahead in space technology, especially with regard to modern rocket engines, there is such a paramount condition for any successful flights beyond Earth, like the reliability of spacesuits, without which is simply unthinkable travel to space.
This was confirmed once again, for example, by recent events, when ISS astronauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev had to go out into outer space to eliminate a hole in the body Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft. And such extreme situations, not to mention about planned work in outer space, in such flights are not avoid anyone and never.
And now, on the issue of the reliability of spacesuits, Russia is just one step away ahead of the united states. So, the exit from the ISS into outer space Italian astronaut Luke Parmitano in an American spacesuit in his time almost ended tragically for him, because in the suit refused the carbon dioxide sensor, and then all over the face water flowed from the astronaut, which promptly had to be interrupted experiment. And if it was not an experiment? ..
After that, NASA began to urgently develop new spacesuits for astronauts, but experts say it can take years. At the same time, Russia has an excellent Orlan-ISS model – the suit with the automatic cooling system made of the most unique modern materials. It is in such spacesuits Prokofiev and Kononenko recently soared near the ISS in space – and Feel great.
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With these reliable, comfortable Russian spacesuits now other astronauts of the international space station, in including the Americans. Nobody wants to risk their lives climbing into the unreliable “space clothes” of NASA. Next year, as the journalists assured the “Roskosmos”, the ISS will be sent more one Orlan-ISS.
Russia almost always demonstrates in everything momentary victorious marches, as it was with the incomprehensible until now the lunar mission of the Americans, which today in the world almost no one doesn’t take seriously, “triumphant” reusable launches ships by US private companies and flashy sets of people for flight to Mars, and a gradual and thorough solution to any assigned tasks, especially in such an important matter as mastering of space. Perhaps that is why in the end everything turns out to be a lot in Russia better and more reliable than in the USA – and this despite the fact that the Russian Federation really can not invest (or does not consider it necessary) so much billions of dollars in space development how do Americans (which they constantly brag about). But the question is: where do they go these billions? ..
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