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Sokol Suit |
The visitor center displayed Shannon Lucid's Sokol suit from her 1996 trip to the Mir space station. The Sokol (Russian for "falcon") suit is a pressure suit (similar to the American Project Mercury suit), designed to be a backup should the spacecraft lose pressure. It is not designed for EVAs (the Russian EVA suit is called the Orlan suit). Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has an informative YouTube video regarding the Sokol suit. |
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