 How did suspension help the crew?
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." 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 both ended in the lead shield that was set where the swell of the curve was biggest. It meant the engine or engines took up half the ship, cut off from the forward half by the instrument studded shield. The fluid chamber drained under pressure and the arm moved back. "No gravity," he grunted and sat back.
 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.