(futuristic electronic pop beat)

Right now I'm just going to put the pressure suit on

and then install it into the seat

and that requires plugging in all my systems

so this can take a while but here we go.

I became interested in building

pressure suit when I started thinking, well,

I won't be going to space, I won't be going to Mars

but I will try to go as close as I can.

I have a budget at Ace Hardware of $20 a weekend

and I've put in basically a year of research

and then three years of building.

I looked at dozens of patents and dozens of NASA reports

and I started to realize how essentially simple

the pressure suit was.

And then I started to realize, oh I can actually

build this myself, I can make one of these

that I'm willing to stake my life on, myself.

I was foolish, I made the zipper go down.

I need to reverse the zipper so it comes up,

'cause I can't reach it.

So...

My mom happens to be in town, and how many people get to be

put into their pressure suit by Mom?

People have occasionally said that this is,

it's obviously dangerous, some people have suggested

maybe it's beyond dangerous and into foolhardy.

I disagree, I think that that is said out of ignorance

of how essentially simple the system is.

We have this idea that the only people who can do this

is NASA or highly funded research arms

or the Air Force or whoever, who's got all this money.

Helmet goes on.

And a bayonet closes it.

I do a test of my breathing gas.

And they don't know anything about the history

of those five years before the war

where people built these and they worked.

(air flow)

(speech garbled by suit)

Breathing gas is now coming in automatically.

One PSI.

If they could build these from rubberized canvas

and these very few components in the 1930s,

surely 70 years later I can do the same here at home.

And so that's the end of one pressure test.

And I didn't run the cooling system today.

Has a tiny leak, and...

Tiny leaks are exactly the battle,

the constant battle is knocking out little tiny leaks

and it's one screw and...

Actually I fixed the screw and then...

The hose unplugged by itself, so tiny details like that

are what I'm knocking out, piece by piece,

one by one, weekend by weekend.

(chill electronic pop beat)