Spacecraft Standard Personal Equipment

It is sometimes useful to have an idea of what equipment is available on a spacecraft. By law or by necessity, spacecraft carry on-board a minimum safety, survival, and technical equipment. The following items are suggestions for basic portable equipment which could be found on most spacecraft.

Space walk

• Complete vacc suit sets, typically one per technical crew member, plus on or two extra;
• a few extra tanks, helmets and life support packs;
• sometimes one or two rad-shielded heavy vacc suit in case of Solar flares;
• thruster packs.

Air poisoning/pressure loss

• Respirators;
• airmasks and generic filters;
• envirobags;
• heating units.

Medical equipment

• Vehicle medkit;
• two or three emergency medkits;
• biomonitors;
• antitoxins for CO₂ and common food and water poisoning;
• drug patches with doses of generic antibiotics and pain-killers;
• enzyme-blocking drugs for common diseases;
• anti-space-sickness drugs;
• bandage spray;
• plastiskin;
• pneumospray hypos;
• extra preserved rations;
• microgravity-biochemistry ephemeral nanosymbionts;
• sometimes one or more nanostasis pod on military or expedition craft.

Technical equipment

• Tech-spiders and/or polypede (or bush robot);
• swarms: repair (electronics and mechanics), cleaning, pesticide, and decontamination (fission and fusion spacecraft);
• basic toolkits (electronics and mechanics);
• teradisks
• energy cells
• chemsniffers for fire or toxic hazards (including fixed devices);
• field scanner;
• nanofiber rope;
• pressure boxes;
• flashlights (adaptable on helmets);
• dry fire extinguishers (portable and fixed);
• surveillance bugs/cameras at strategic locations on military vessels.

Standard emergency equipment

• Communicators;
• teleview goggles adaptable on helmets;
• chemscanner on military craft for swarm detection;
• sometimes personal re-entry kits;
• possibly a few zero-G weapons (electro-laser, perhaps laser).