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A comment on Jim LeBlanc Survives Early Spacesuit Vacuum Test Gone Wrong (2012).

Re:Jim LeBlanc Survives Early Spacesuit Vacuum Test Gone Wro... by mannykannot on Sunday November 25, 2018 @02:01PM (#18528284)
Could this incident have given Clarke the factual basis for the airlock scene in 2001? More than most SF authors, he liked his fiction to be broadly plausible.
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Re:Jim LeBlanc Survives Early Spacesuit Vacuum Test Gone Wro... by pavlov on Sunday November 25, 2018 @03:26PM (#18528818)
Clarke’s 1955 novel “Earthlight” had suitless spacewalk as a major plot point. I think he had a long-term fascination with the topic.
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