Space Suit Technology
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Learn how to make your own space suit! This course will cover the basic physiology surrounding space flight, and explain the basics of space suit design. Topics include weightlessness, pressure, heat, and radiation protection.
The class will teach the basics of casting and mold making in order to build your own space suit parts, including pressurizeable fingers, fingertips, and a valsalva device. Mold making skills taught include working plaster, alginate (body casting), hydrocal, urethane foam, silicone, plasticine, 1-part urethane rubber, epoxy resin, as well as basic fabric working skills. Develop your sculpting skills while learning the basics of space travel!
Instructors
Nicolay Moiseev was born in 1962, Moscow, Russia. He graduated Moscow’s high school #708 in 1980 and graduated Moscow Aviation Institute in1986 as mechanical engineer. He earned a MS from MAI in 2002. He has been a designer of space suits since 1986. Space suit gloves of his design have worked in open space since 1988. He has 4 patents in space suit design and 18 publications in magazines and conferences. He developed and manufactured the first in the world homemade space suit in 2007, and 2 suits for commercial space flights in 2010-2012 as designer of Final Frontier Design (FFD), Brooklyn, NY. He awarded for a prizewinning performance in the Astronaut Glove Challenge(AGC), and a NASA certificate of appreciation for successful completed tasks of works in open space after the Columbia disaster. Now he is the head designer of FFD a small space suit prototyping company.
Ted Southern was born in 1977 in Los Angeles, CA. He earned a Bachelors of Music at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, and a Masters of Art from Pratt Institute in 2007. Ted has worked as a freelance costume and special effects fabricator in NYC since 2001, and he has been working with space suit garments since 2006. Ted has worked on various productions including Broadway shows, movies, television, window displays, ballet, and opera. Currently Ted is in contract making costumes for Victoria’s Secret and Cirque du’Soleil. He has guest lectured at Parsons, Alfred State School of Ceramics, NYU-Polytechnic, and MIT. Ted founded FFD in 2009, after a successful partnership with Nikolay in the AGC. Ted was the Principal Investigator in FFD’s 2011 SBIR contracting with NASA JSC, further developing their pressure garment glove technology within the industry. Ted is working to develop FFD into the commercial space suit provider of the burgeoning space industry.
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