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Blowholes Of Sea & Space / Chap.12 p. 105
be viewed. When there was no internal vacuum the fingers inserted into the glove could be
easily clenched, and the hand freely rotated and flexed within the limitations usual for all
gloves.
I exhausted the chamber to 10.2 psi which put 4.5 psi inside the glove. The vacuum
pump used was capable of moving 3 cubic feet a minute and at first it was unable to decrease
the pressure to 10.2 psi. The glove was leaking air around the 12 inch periphery of the
flange, despite the fact that it was tightly clamped with a worm driven stainless-steel band
clamp. That leak drained twice as much air as a man breathes. No, I didn't spend tens of
millions for research and development, but I still wonder how much oxygen a crotch-toshoulder
zipper would leak.
Once my demonstration glove balloons around your inserted hand, it requires great effort
to move either fingers or hand. It also becames impossible to flex the wrist backwards,
although the lever arm is only a normal 7 inches from fingertips to wrist. With that in mind,
imagine the effort needed to bend an elbow against a lever arm of 24 inches, measured from
fingertip to elbow! How could you move your shoulder and lower your arms or swing them
forward against the 36 inches of lever arm found here I seriously doubt if Hulk Hogan
could move his arms in a fabric space suit. Hey NASA, let's do a TV special to prove me
wrong! You provide the suit and I'll provide the air pump, pressure gauge and a
consumption meter to measure zipper leakage. For some strange reason the space coveralls
had an external pocket on the shoulder of the right sleeve, which according to Mallan's book
on spacesuits was for sun glasses. The coverall was only worn outside the ship. At that time
you had on the fish bowl helmet. What could you do with sun glasses 24
In December of '93, NASA claimed to have repaired the faulty mirror on the Hubble
telescope. I had, and still have, a problem with this. Bright grammar school kids have been
grinding telescope mirrors by hand for 200 years and seldom do they fail to get it right. One
can use a simple tin can pierced with many tiny holes for gauging correct curvature during
grinding. In May of 1990 a NASA shuttle carried and deployed into space an incredibly
expensive toy that had already cost 1.5 billion plus. Months later NASA reluctantly informed
us that the Hubble's mirror was not ground properly. That toy was backed by a fulltime
staff of 300 scientists and engineers and none had ever checked the mirror before
launching.
NASA also mentioned that the Hubble had a wide-angle planetary-camera attachment.
My question was why The only planet too close to study without a wide angle lens is the
Earth. (Which leads us to the happy thought that there never was a thing wrong with the
Hubble and the CIA used it as a "Spy Eye"). This also makes no sense! Eric Chaisson,
author of The Hubble Wars reports that during "Operation Desert Storm" the military had a
fleet of at least six "Keyhole" space telescopes that were operational. Some were as big as
the Hubble. 25 They tested all of these but forgot the Hubble. Sure they did!
As 1993 ended our TV screens were flooded by pictures of the shuttle crew working on
the Hubble. I have been a mechanic all my life and you simply can't work with small
fasteners with heavy gloves on. Yet, there they were in the full vacuum of space replacing
the equipment. Not only were the suits not ballooned, but neither were the gloves. I also
saw one short film clip of one of the astronauts with his hand limply bent down over the
edge of a console. My space glove proves this can't happen. But the pictures exist!
NASA MOONED AMERICA! / Rene