As posted yesterday – the Copenhagen Suborbitals DIY spacesuit team will arrive here Monday with Cameron Smith and John Haslett and as always there are tonnes of to-do´s to be crossed.

Cameron just told me that that he is still working at least 22 items before leaving to make it all work. I guess you don´t just bring a space suit on a plane, which are normally rigged up with racks, hoses, pipes and controls. All this has been modified to fit a small suitcase for easy travel and testing here in Copenhagen. Nice work!

Did we miss something?. Image: Cameron Smith Did we miss something?. Image: Cameron Smith

Personally I would just wear the suit all the way on the air-plane but I guess that would probably alarm certain others passengers and there is probably not enough ice in the liquid coolant container for crossing the Atlantic.

Today I created the mounting device for installing the mock-up seat inside the Tycho Deep Space II boilerplate. This way we can easily pull the seat out for modifications and testing without a whole bunch of people inside the capsule goes crazy.

Once Lamm applies his overlay, you can see a wall of emerald buildings rise above the park and abruptly flatten once it reaches Harlem. Image: Nickolay Lamm Mock-up seat inside Tycho Deep Space II boilerplate ready for action. Image: Kristian von Bengtson

From Aug 19-28 there will be space suit testing and seating construction in my department of Copenhagen Suborbitals.

This is what a crewed space program is all about!

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Kristian von Bengtson