pumpkin suit
English
Noun
pumpkin suit (plural pumpkin suits)
- An orange-colored intravehicular activity (IVA) spacesuit.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pumpkin, suit.
- The kids wore pumpkin suits for Hallowe'en.
Usage notes
(IVA pressure suit):While the NASA Shuttle-era IVA spacesuits were orange, the Chinese Shenzhou-era IVA spacesuits are white, as are the Soviet/Russian (white) IVA space suits.
Hypernyms
(IVA pressure suit):
- spacesuit
- pressure suit
Hyponyms
(IVA pressure suit):
- launch entry suit / LES (
Launch Entry Suit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia) - advanced crew escape suit / ACES ( Advanced Crew Escape Suit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
Coordinate terms
(IVA pressure suit):
- survival suit