 How did suspension help the crew?
I reached down to the tightness that held my body, found the wide strap that held me and fumbled with the buckle. How do you describe being weightless when you are born into a world bound by gravity. There was no sensation of place, no feeling of up or down, no direction. "Do not begin operations until the others are removed from suspension." Your maximum deviation from schedule cannot exceed two degrees. Everything lay in readiness, fastened down star charts, instruments, glittering equipment. It waited for human hands to make it operate. What speeds and perhaps, what distance?
 They could travel through space for a long distance.
 They could survive without oxygen.  They could live on an inhospitable planet.  They could survive with lack of gravity.  They could travel through space for a long distance.