DIY Space Suit

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2013

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Cameron Smith is building a space suit in his apartment. He’s not an astronaut. He’s not even an engineer. Cameron Smith is an archaeologist–on faculty in the anthropology department at Portland State University in Oregon.

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.
0:03.8	Supressurization solenoid switch on.
0:06.8	Confirmed. Connect coolant hose. Coolant pump on, confirm flaw.
0:12.1	We're going to wait and confirm after suit up.
0:16.5	These guys are about to test a space suit.
0:19.8	But this is not a recording of a NASA lab.
0:22.4	This is Cameron Smith's ground floor studio apartment
0:25.3	in Portland, Oregon.
0:26.8	That's Julie Sabatier, also from Portland, Oregon.
0:29.4	She's a creator of the public radio program
0:31.3	and podcast called Destination DIY.
0:34.6	Do we have to say what DIY stands for?
0:36.2	Sure, it stands for do it yourself.
0:38.5	You might think building your own spacesuit at home is a little extreme on the DIY spectrum.
0:42.8	And if you do, I totally agree with you.
0:44.4	It is pretty crazy.
0:45.4	We've talked about a lot of kinds of do-it-yourself
0:48.0	projects on destination DIY.
0:49.7	We have a very broad definition of do it yourself.
0:52.8	From being your lawyer to DIY funerals way beyond the crafts and home improvement projects
0:58.2	that might first bring to mind when you hear the words do it yourself.
1:02.2	And this is definitely up there with perhaps the most daunting of
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