Resist the itch...

[imamartian]

Just imagine you're NASA's latest DIY expert sent up to mend the guttering on the outside of the International Space Station... you're on a 3 hour mission floating outside the station, trying not to let your kit float off into space.......... and disaster strikes... you get one of those really irritating itches on the side of your nose, or in your ear.... you know the sort.... they need a good 3 or 4 second scratch....

What do you do in your space suit? Have NASA thought of this?

 

[Stivino]

A real Martian would know the answer to that one.

 

[mlb3c]

According to Gerhard Thiele, sneezing inside the EVA helmet is to be avoided at all costs “It’s a mess!” And if you get an itch, you might be able to rub up against the spacesuit, but other than that, there is not a lot you can do in an American EVA spacesuit. If however you are lucky enough to be in a Russian Orlan suit, there might be a solution. “There is a bit more room in the Orlan,” Thiele explained. “You can lean to one side and pull your arm out of the glove and sleeve. But mostly you are so concentrated during the spacewalk, that you might not even notice an itch.”

 

[BingoBongo]

what about one of those itches up your arssse?

the kind only a finger or two can sort?

 

[joe-90]

what about one of those itches up your arssse?

the kind only a finger or two can sort?

You've got worms mate.

 

[wotan]

what about one of those itches up your arssse?

the kind only a finger or two can sort?

You've got worms mate.

That could be pile (ing) on the agony.

 

[tim west]

wonder if any mischevious nasa engineers have ever put itching powder in a suit before it went into space for the crack?