SK-1 spacesuit

SK-1 spacesuit

SK-1 is an acronym of "Skafandr Kosmicheskiy" # 1 (Скафандр Космический = "spacesuit" or "diving suit for space") is a spacesuit that was developed specially for Yuri Gagarin. After his successful flight on the Vostok 1 spacecraft, spacesuits of the SK series were used for space flights of other cosmonauts on Vostok spacecraft.

External links

* [http://vokrugsveta.ru/publishing/vs/archives/?item_id=465 Vita Germetika : A Brief History of Creating and Development of Soviet-Russian space suits] - in Russian
* [http://www.zvezda-npp.ru/english/04.htm Museum of NPP Zvezda : photo of SK#1 space suit]


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