pressure suit

English

Pressure suit made for aviation pioneer Wiley Post (1934)
US astronaut John Glenn in pressure suit (1962)

Etymology

Coined by American science fiction authors E. E. "Doc" Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby in their 1928 novel The Skylark of Space, first serialised in Amazing Stories.

Noun

pressure suit (plural pressure suits)

  1. (aviation, astronautics) A sealed, full-body garment, usually with an attachable helmet, which maintains air pressure or mechanical pressure around the body of an astronaut or aviator to compensate for the low density of the air at high altitudes.

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  • protective suit, suit

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