what will happen to the astronaut if the space suit is removed in space ?

Answer 1

(cut and pasted from link site):

"There is such a thing as "explosive decompression," but that merely refers to the sudden loss of pressure in an air- or spacecraft, not the effect on the occupants. Though your chances of surviving such an experience are slim, your body would not explode (although see below). In fact, if you were able to scramble to safety quickly enough (as the helmetless astronaut did in the famous scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey), you might emerge virtually unscathed.

To be sure, there are a few troublemakers who will give an argument on this. Some flight surgeons at NASA, for instance, say death in a vacuum would be almost instantaneous. They offer the following Technicolor scenario: your blood would boil, your eyeballs would explode, and your lungs would turn to red slush.

But the medical literature suggests this view is exaggerated. For one thing, I have never seen anything indicating your eyeballs would explode (although your eardrumms might burst). It's true that in the absence of ambient pressure your blood and other bodily fluids would boil, in the sense that they would turn to vapor. But that's not as drastic as it sounds. Your soft tissues would swell markedly, but they'd return to normal if you were recompressed within a short time.

It's conceivable your lungs might rupture, since in a vacuum the air in them would greatly expand. But experience suggests this is rare even if decompression is extremely rapid. The chances are much greater if your windpipe is closed, making it impossible for the expanding air to escape.

Death would not be instantaneous. It's believed you'd have 10-15 seconds of "useful consciousness" and it'd be several minutes before you'd die. If you were rescued within that time there's a decent chance you'd survive. Research with chimps and monkeys suggests that if you were exposed to a virtual vacuum for less than 90-120 seconds you might not suffer any permanent damage.

That said, there are circumstances involving explosive decompression in which your body might be torn to bits. This would result not from the exposure to a vacuum per se but from injuries caused by the accompanying air blast. I have here a medical journal article about a case of explosive decompression that killed four divers. (They went from high pressure to normal rather than normal to vacuum, but same idea.)

The bodies of three of the dead men were outwardly normal. The fourth man, however, was forced through a narrow hatch by the rush of escaping air and his body, to be blunt, was reduced to pot roast. Naturally, the authors of the article felt obliged to include pictures, including a close-up of what was left of the face."

Answer 2

It would be similar to viewing the creation of the universe except that, since space is not an absolute vacuum, the process would take longer and be less explosive. The fluids in individual cells would start to expand due to the pressure differential and eventually burst the membranes surrounding them. Eventually, the now unrestricted fluids would expand the skin until it burst, bone marrow would crack the bones and begin to escape, brain fluid would crack the skull and begin to escape through the cracks and other openings, more dense things like muscles and tendons would be the last things to expand to pieces. Since space is not an absolute vacuum, this time, more dense matter like bone particles and all complex matter, like atoms, would survive and be propelled by the expansion in all different directions, where they eventually may be reused to become part of a star or planet or just part of the cosmic dust floating around all over.

trying to holding your breath wouldn't make any difference.

The process would take different amounts of time for different individuals due to the slightly different atomic composition we all have.

One benefit would be that the aging process would stop. If we could figure out how to do this and contain all of the pieces and recombine them at some other distant location, we might be able to do some serious space travel.

Answer 3

The suit mantains a balance between bodily blood pressure and atmospheric pressure in space. As there is no atmospheric pressure in space. the astronaut's blood pressure will burst the blood vesels inside the body thereby killing him if he removes the space suit in space.

Answer 4

He could bypass out in approximately 15-20 seconds and suffocate interior of three-4 minutes. If some distance adequate faraway from the sunlight could finally freeze stable. There would be embolisms in his substantial blood vessels however the stress loss does no longer make him explode. exposure to hoover is survivable yet only for short classes of time.

Answer 5

The astronaut will simply burst into pieces & lack of oxygen because in space the pressure is too high

Answer 6

he would explode instantly because of difference in pressure. The exact same thing will happen if a submarine suit were to be taken off at -x- amount of miles under water. Thats when the thing called "BENZ" effect comes into play. Where your veins explode. Sick

Answer 7

Eventual death. Can be very painful.,

1. Depending on whether he is in the shadow of spacecraft or not (he may freeze if he is in the shadow) or roast i(f he is in the sunlight,) to death.

2. Because of vaccum or lack of atmosphere, his body gets expanded till it explodes. so he may die of explosion.

3. Say if he survives above both, he may die of asphyxiation because of lack of air.

4. say if he survives all the above(presuming he has not exploded, got roasted,got frozen or got asphyxiated) he will stay there and rotate around the earth as an biological satellite.

Answer 8

he would die because space is fu*king cold ...and after a few minutes h would die of lack of air!!! And after dieing he would float away to far space or he would be puled by gravity to earth or to some other planet in the way!!!

Answer 9

Explode

Answer 10

a guess is that he wouldn't have control over his weight[lessness], without it & would be in the situation that he cann't manage---- means may be it have air[pressure] in it to give him weightage, to make his landing easier a little bit.
also it may cotrol his temprature at par.