Starfire
“Build your wings on the way down.
—RAY BRADBURY MCLANAHAN INDUSTRIAL AIRPORT, BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NEVADA SEVERAL DAYS LATER “Is the guy asleep, Boomer?” the flight surgeon monitoring the crew’s physiological datalink radioed. “His heart rate hasn’t changed one bit since we put him on the monitors. Is he freakin’ dead? Check on him, okay?”
“Roger,” Hunter “Boomer” Noble, the aircraft commander on this flight, replied. He left his seat, climbed back between the two side-by-side cockpit seats, walked... through the airlock between the cockpit and cabin, and entered the small four-person passenger compartment. Unlike the more familiar orange full-pressure space suit worn by the two passengers on this flight, Noble’s tall, lanky, athletic body was covered in a skintight suit called an EEAS, or Electronic Elastomeric Activity Suit, which performed the same functions as a traditional space suit except it used electronically controlled fibers to compress the skin instead of pressurized oxygen, so it was much easier for him to move about the cabin than it was for the others.MoreLess
—RAY BRADBURY MCLANAHAN INDUSTRIAL AIRPORT, BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NEVADA SEVERAL DAYS LATER “Is the guy asleep, Boomer?” the flight surgeon monitoring the crew’s physiological datalink radioed. “His heart rate hasn’t changed one bit since we put him on the monitors. Is he freakin’ dead? Check on him, okay?”
“Roger,” Hunter “Boomer” Noble, the aircraft commander on this flight, replied. He left his seat, climbed back between the two side-by-side cockpit seats, walked... through the airlock between the cockpit and cabin, and entered the small four-person passenger compartment. Unlike the more familiar orange full-pressure space suit worn by the two passengers on this flight, Noble’s tall, lanky, athletic body was covered in a skintight suit called an EEAS, or Electronic Elastomeric Activity Suit, which performed the same functions as a traditional space suit except it used electronically controlled fibers to compress the skin instead of pressurized oxygen, so it was much easier for him to move about the cabin than it was for the others.MoreLess
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