Could You Make A Space Suit From Duct Tape?

NASA has used ’gray tape’ to solve a few problems in space, but the season 2 finale of ’For All Mankind’ includes a scene with a pair of astronauts improvising a pressure suit from oxygen masks and duct tape. And it turns out that this isn’t as ridiculous as you might imagine, a pressure suit doesn’t need to provide atmospheric pressure, but mechanical pressure and the strength of material required is well within that provided by off the shelf tape. “For All Mankind“ tells a story of a space program in an alternate universe where the Soviet Union lands on the Moon before NASA and the space race never stops. There’s a couple of great books from NASA which cover the technical details: Dressing For Altitude Bioastronautics Data Book