I’ve just finished sorting the pictures from the seat liner molding session I had in Moscow last week.
It took place in the facilities of the company Звезда (Svesda = Star) in the town of Томилино (Tomilino) on the outskirts of Moscow. Звезда has manufactured space suits and seat liners since the very beginning of human spaceflight, so it might happen that you find yourself on a scale that has been used to weigh cosmonauts since 1961!
You can see pictures of the whole process here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/astrosamantha/sets/72157636469978235/
Based on the mold and the measurements they took, the good folks at Звезда will manufacture for me Sokol suit n. 422 and seat liner n. 650. I did ask the question: why don’t the numbers match? It seems that the numbering of the seat liners was fast-forwarded to 500 at some point to mark the introduction of a new model.
I’ll be back at some point in the coming months to try the suit in the vacuum chamber.
Soyuz seat liner molding.
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https://www.astronautinews.it/tag/logbook/
(Trad ES) Tradducción en español aquí:
https://www.intervidia.com/category/bitacora/
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https://anne.cpamoa.free.fr/blog/index.php/category/logbook-samantha
12/10/2013