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The Reality of Apollo / Remarkable eBay find regarding Apollo 11
« Last post by mako88sb on March 06, 2024, 11:08:39 AM »This fairly young guy likes to collect old media equipment and tapes and produced this video of his latest purchase:
Apologies - that error is happening again. I went back a couple of times but the same result each time:
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/how-two-cold-war-spacewalks-came-common-technological-solutionFrom the description it would seem that the capsule had air, changed to oxygen for the EVA. It didn't mention whether or not the air was brought back into the capsule or not, but as it described the suit was filled with oxygen.
According to this source, it was pure oxygen, at least in his suit. The capsule was another matter.
I believe Leonov did nearly die; after all, he had to depressurise his suit to a dangerous level to get back into the spacecraft.
He reduced the pressure from 40 kPa down to 27 kPa. This is not a dangerous level, it is more that the Apollo EVA suit (25.5 kPa), and 50% more than the safe minimum for any suit in an emergency (e.g. 18.5 kPa used by by the Shuttle EES).
I believe Leonov did nearly die; after all, he had to depressurise his suit to a dangerous level to get back into the spacecraft.