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Space Armor
Armored space suits for use in vacuum. (Read the full article)
| ""Space armor" appears as early as E.E. "Doc" Smith's story "Galactic Patrol", which was serialized in Astounding Science Fiction (Sept. 1937-Feb. 1938).
"Back of that port there had been massed a hundred fighting men, dressed in full
panoply of space armor, armed with the deadliest weapons known to the science of the
age, and powered by the gigantic accumulators of their ship."" (Arivne 1/25/2009 3:14:46 PM ) |
| "Sorry, just read the "Space-Armor" entry from "Triplanetary", an even earlier Smith story." (Arivne 1/25/2009 3:40:43 PM ) |
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