Spanish astronaut Pablo Álvarez already has a spacesuit, shares his impressions

The lion is Pablo Alvarez36 years old, has been chosen as a permanent astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA), along with four other colleagues, from among more than 22,500 candidates. Yesterday he was trying on the spacesuit with which spacewalks are carried out on the International Space Station, and he shared his impressions on X.

It is quite possible that Pablo Álvarez travels to the International Space Station in the coming yearsbecoming the first Spanish astronaut to go into space in more than 20 years, since he did so Peter Duke in 2003.

He is also one of the candidates for Travel to the Moon on one of NASA’s possible tripsBut first, you have to start getting acclimated to the spacesuit.

This is Pablo Álvarez’s spacesuit

The Spanish astronaut was testing himself yesterday NASA’s spacesuit used on spacewalks on the International Space Stationand has commented on his feelings in X.

The suit was manufactured more than 40 years ago, and only 18 exist. Two of them were lost in the Challenger accident, and two in the Columbia accident.

The suit has seven different layersand as Pablo Álvarez says in X, it is almost a spaceship in itself. Weighs 145 kilosso on Earth it has to receive help to be able to move. In space, without gravity, everything is easier:

Underneath the spacesuit, astronauts wear another suit with dozens of meters of tubes through which water circulates to maintain an adequate temperature.

With so many layers and so much weight, astronauts have to be helped by several people to put on or take off the suit.

As Pablo Álvarez himself confesses in X, also wears a diaperlike all astronauts when they go into space. Although space diapers could soon be a thing of the past:

On land, The spacesuit is used for training at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston. A giant pool containing a replica of the ISS. Diving into the water mimics the microgravity conditions of the International Space Station.

In the next weeks, Pablo Álvarez will receive his first training thereThe life of an astronaut is full of trials and hard work, but anything goes to become one of the few human beings to have visited the International Space Station.

Astronaut Pablo Álvarez has already tried on his first space suitwith whom he will train in the coming weeks. One more step towards making his dream come true. Space is a little closer…

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