How to Use pressure suit in a Sentence
pressure suit
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Wilmore and Williams would not wear pressure suits for the trip back to Earth.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2024
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Wearing a pressure suit and strapped into the plane, Crawford then did far more than observe.
—Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 5 Aug. 2019
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It is piloted by a single human who must wear a full pressure suit, like an astronaut.
—Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
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SpaceX techs will help the astronauts into their one-piece, two-layer pressure suits.
—Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2020
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SpaceX techs will also help the astronauts into their one-piece, two-later pressure suits.
—Fox News, 26 May 2020
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Some are suited up in their SpaceX pressure suits ahead of hatch closure and undocking, Navias said.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2026
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Rather, their suits, according to Lewis, acted more like pressure suits, designed for emergency use only.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2024
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Being sealed up in a full pressure suit and strapped into an ejection seat for 11 hours is definitely not for everyone.
—Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 4 Sep. 2019
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At that point, Wilmore and Williams can get out of their pressure suits and change into more comfortable clothing for the rest of the flight to the space station.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 1 June 2024
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As the pilot, Engle would arrive shortly after sunrise to don a pressure suit and ensure the integrity of its seals.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2019
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The astronauts will put on their orange pressure suits for some of these activities, according to Parsons.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2023
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The cockpit was plunged into darkness and the cabin depressurized, triggering his pressure suit to inflate.
—Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2013
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Exasperated, Shepard had little choice but to relieve himself in his pressure suit.
—Ben Evans, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2021
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The ultimate solution involved using a piece of cardboard, a plastic bag, a hose from a pressure suit, duct tape and a sock to connect the command module scrubbers.
—Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2020
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The Mercury and Gemini spacecraft were too cramped to change clothing, so on those early missions, the crew members remained in their pressure suits.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026
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To him, the most intriguing scenes from the second film portray Maverick wearing a pressure suit and flying what looks like a hypersonic airplane.
—Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2022
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Shortly before launch, when Stafford and Cernan were in the suit-up room, preparing to climb into their pressure suits, Slayton appeared.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Nov. 2025
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The uniform was a pressure suit to protect Mercury astronauts during launch and reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.
—Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2022
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Amid the aerial splendors, there is also a glimpse of Maverick donning a mysterious high altitude pressure suit, which raises the flying stakes.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 18 July 2019
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Will my descendants someday put on a pressure suit and protective gear, walk out an airlock into a rusty landscape and butterscotch sky, and see a phenomenon like this towering above them?
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2012
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The Soviets famously sent a mannequin, nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, that tested the cosmonaut’s pressure suit.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 Jan. 2026
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The new spacesuits are based on pressure suits worn by astronauts on previous Crew Dragon Flights but are specifically designed for spacewalks.
—Daniel Cote, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2024
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In the first, humans simply raise Mars’ atmospheric pressure until space colonists can walk around with a breathing apparatus instead of the full astronaut pressure suit used in spacewalks.
—John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2018
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Powered by two Pratt & Whitney J58 turboramjets, the jet could fly faster than Mach 3 and climb so high that the crew needed to wear pressure suits so as not to pass out.
—Erik Schechter, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2015
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Scientists there developed pressure suits used in the Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.
—Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 29 Dec. 2019
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One suit, known at the Orion Crew Survival System, looks similar to the orange pressure suits space shuttle astronauts wore during launch and landing.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2019
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Space suits—designed to provide oxygen and consistent atmospheric pressure—have evolved from pressure suits for pilots in high-altitude planes to ones that can keep astronauts alive in the near-vacuum conditions of space.
—National Geographic, 17 June 2019
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Turkish sailors practiced with a new pressure suit—resembling a cross between Iron Man and the Michelin Man—in which a diver can move at depths where a person would normally be crushed to death.
—Julian E. Barnes, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2017
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Kittinger has been reportedly instrumental to the construction of these new full pressure suits, providing his 50 years of experience of the physiological effects of near-space.
—Jonathan Doyle, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2010
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This approach turned out to be too casual, though, and after Challenger and its seven-person crew were lost in 1986, NASA returned to using pressure suits for launch and landing.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026
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