*70s-80s* Sci-fi/space-travel book with female part/full Asian heritage named "Meng or Mang" who dies in a space suit from an air leak.

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There is a ship. It is filled with multiple personality one of them is a blond woman and she is having sex with a mercenary guy name Mike, maybe. Everyone is a scientist or soldier on a long haul voyage through space possibly to colonize or to escape overpopulation. The Asian female character is depressed. The woman goes on a space walk in a sort of ATV and ends up running out of air due to a leak in her suit and is later found frozen solid and assumed to have committed suicide. I don't recall if she is thawed and revived. The book was paperback and very aged/old. I don't think it was The Expanse.
 
I forgot about writing this post. Unfortunately, i see no one else has remembered it either. Damn.
 
Or haven't even read it! I can remember a story about a woman whose ship got so close to the sun that she barely survived, and one about a large man who stopped a space ship hull slow leak with his butt cheek, and a mishmash of stories in which someone floated away into deep space in his suit, but nothing like this description. Yet.
 
Ravensquawk said:
Or haven't even read it! I can remember a story about a woman whose ship got so close to the sun that she barely survived, and one about a large man who stopped a space ship hull slow leak with his butt cheek, and a mishmash of stories in which someone floated away into deep space in his suit, but nothing like this description. Yet.
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The butt cheek episode is in a Heinlein juvenile. Possibly Farmer in the Sky. As you say, has no bearing on the op question.
 
PaulMmn said:
I believe the story is "Gentlemen, Be Seated." It takes place on the moon. Two or three men are trapped in a ?dome? ?tunnel? with a leak... Only way to slow down the leak...

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That is very interesting.
Heinlein must have used the plot idea more than once. Such a nice idea that it would not be surprising. I read the Farmer in the Sky 40-odd years ago so my memory may be inaccurate, but I have a feeling that there are clothes between butt and hard vacuum, and that the hero’s Boy Scout badge gets wrecked in the process. Anyone else read this?
 
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hitmouse said:
That is very interesting.
Heinlein must have used the plot idea more than once. Such a nice idea that it would not be surprising. I read the Farmer in the Sky 40-odd years ago so my memory may be inaccurate, but I have a feeling that there are clothes between butt and hard vacuum, and that the hero’s Boy Scout badge gets wrecked in the process. Anyone else read this?
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That plot about the hero's Boy Scout badge is in Farmer in the Sky!
 
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