After reading Hugo's answer to this question, I learned that Darth Vader's famous suit was designed to ensure his survival in almost any environment
even the vacuum of space
My question is, are there any examples of Vader having to deal with this situation, for instance, walking across the surface of a moon or an asteroid? I am fairly certain this never happened in any of the films, but did this kind of thing ever happen in any of the comics or novels? I will accept answers drawn from the old Expanded Universe as well as the currently defined canon.
Answer
Yes
I recall this happening at least once in Marvel's Darth Vader comic series, but it's more convenient for me to quote the canon novel Lords of the Sith:
Vader hit a switch and depressurized the interceptor's cockpit, his armor shielding him from the vacuum. Then, as he neared the transport's midline, still swinging his ship left and right to dodge the incoming fire, he selected a spot on the transport adjacent to the gun bubble and, using the Force, took a firm mental hold on it.
His interceptor streaked toward the gun bubble, aimed directly at it. Content with the trajectory, he unstrapped himself, overrode the interceptor's safeties, threw open the cockpit hatch, and ejected into space.
Immediately he was spinning in the zero-g, the ship and stars alternating positions with rapidity. Yet he kept his mental hold on the air-lock handle, and his armor, sealed and pressurized, sustained him in the vacuum. The respirator was loud in his ears.
Lords of the Sith Chapter 1
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