What happens if the space suit of an astronaut breaks during a spacewalk??

Question

Will the body of the astronaut explode due to the pressure of the body?? will the astronaut's body freeze???

Answer 1

Like the first person said, it depends on how bad the damage is, but I disagree about dying in a couple of seconds. The most immediate danger of a tear is the loss of suit pressure. This will cause all the air supply to be sucked out. If the tear isn't too big, the astronaut would probably have time to get back inside. There would be some bruising in the area of the tear, and possibly some damage due to freezing. If I were an astronaut, as I tried to get back in the ship, I would also turn the damaged side toward the sun, to avoid the freezing problem. And, of course, I'd press my hand against the tear if I could reach it. This would give me more time.

So for a rip of say, a couple of inches, I think the astronaut would suffer little damage if he could get back inside within a minute or so. There would be enough oxygen to keep him alive for awhile. If we're talking about a huge tear, he'd better get inside within a few seconds. The cause of death would be suffocation, not freezing or the bends.

Answer 2

Id depends on how bad the breakage is. Normally the space suits have many layers to protect the astronauts and have security measures just in case.

If it is a total rip off the the astronaut would unfortunalety die in 1 or 2 seconds.

Answer 3

Depressurization of the space suit will result in explosion of the human body within the suit.

At some point the suit will fail to keep the dead astronaut at an agreeable temperature, and the contents of the space suit will begin to freeze solid. The temperature in outer space is roughly Minus 359 Degrees F.

Answer 4

Their internal pressure would cause their body to bloat and their blood would boil at body temperature due to the lack of pressure. It would take some time for their body to freeze as their body radiates the heat into space.

This all assumes that the astronaut is exposed to serious and immediate exposure to space. Minor breaks would lead to less serious consequences.

Answer 5

It hasn't happened yet so nobody knows for sure. But, years ago, Arthur C. Clark wrote a fiction story, based on NASA data, where people escaped a space module on orbit without a spacesuit but helped by rescuer. Apparently it could be possible to be for a very few seconds in space without too much harm.

Answer 6

A little tear wouldn't be fatal.

But, If Buddy really wrecked his spacesuit he'd be in a heap of trouble!

It depends how much his spacesuit is wrecked, and how quickly it got wrecked!

I suspect that Buddy's breathing would arrest and he'd succumb to asphyxiation before he could bleed to death, or systemic shock would do him in anyway!

A sudden and violent lack of external pressure could cause the innards to wanna be outtards! A girdle might be in order! Ever open up a pressure cooker before that little rocker-thing stops-a-rockin?

Clearly not Buddy's walk-through-the-space/park kinda day!

Poor Buddy! He'd be wise to listen to his ma and dress up nice and warm---"And don't go rippin up your new space-suit Buddy!"

Answer 7

The fart might have enough force to move them, especially if they held a lighter to their ***. This would only be a problem if they weren't corded to something. There's no air resistance in space or friction. If you were floating through space without being attached to something and you were pushed, you'd float forever.

Answer 8

as the temperature of the body is quite stable his body will first explode due to its high pressure and then his body(remains) will freeze

Answer 9

Such happy thoughts on a Sunday morning...The exposure would kill them... Cold ,solar radiation and lac of oxygen.

Answer 10

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