My finished Timeline

At last!

My finished timeline, Evolution of the Space Suit, is now live at tiki-toki.com. 

I trace the evolution of the space suit, from its beginnings with the Mercury suit (1959) to the most recent NASA prototype, the Z-1, which you enter from behind through the helmet.

The timeline shows how human ingenuity overcame the problems of space travel one development at a time.

It is remarkable to see the early space suits, which look like tin foil with a hose attached. The poor astronauts! Amazingly, astronauts successfully went into space with these suits and returned home (well, at least some of them). 

My own concept for a deep space suit takes into account these developments and brings them further to try solve the problem of how to cope with lack of pressure in deep space. My suit is (obviously) not on the timeline because it is still an idea.

A screenshot of my Timeline

Link: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/128979/Evolution-of-the-space-suit/#vars!date=1967-11-16_02:41:27!

Conference with my uncle- Change of plans

Just today I had a conference call with my uncle Jorge who is an engineer for NASA. We did a share screen on Skype so he could see my progress on my space suit. He helped me a lot and I really appreciate all the advice he's given me.

A change of plans has happened, I will not be able to finish the space suit in its entirety. Since solid works is such a difficult program to master. I'm having trouble with just making the helmet. This is why, even for a solid works professional, making a complete space suit would take around half a year. Since I have school, tests and a lot of studying to do I have even less time. I'm also a novice to solid works so trying to make a complete spacesuit is currently out of my reach. This is why I will be able to only finish the helmet. I will also try to make an engineering sketch of what I wanted the suit to look like.

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