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Advanced Crew Escape Suit
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Advanced Crew Escape Suit
The
Advanced Crew Escape Suit
(ACES) or "pumpkin suit", was a full
pressure suit
that began to be worn by
Space Shuttle
crews after
STS-65
, for the ascent and entry portions of flight. The suit is a direct descendant of the
U.S. Air Force
high-altitude pressure suits worn by the two-man crews of the
SR-71 Blackbird
, pilots of the
U-2
and
X-15
, and
Gemini
pilot-
astronauts
, and the
Launch Entry Suits
(LES) worn by
NASA
astronauts starting on the
STS-26
flight, the first flight after the
Challenger disaster
. The suit is manufactured by the
David Clark Company
of
Worcester, Massachusetts
. Cosmetically the suit is very similar to the LES. ACES was first used in 1994.
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