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
- Vita Germetika : A Brief History of Creating and Development of Soviet-Russian space suits - in Russian
- Museum of NPP Zvezda : photo of SK#1 space suit
 | This space- or spaceflight-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |