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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin learning how to take pictures with hasselblads made for space.
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This "hard suit" made by Litton Industries in the early 1960s was designed to protect Apollo astronauts during lunar extravehicular activities—aka moonwalks. But the suit was ultimately scrapped by NASA in favor of a softer design made by ILC Dover.

Dubbed the Block III, the Litton suit's main downside was that it was very bulky and could not be stored away under the seats on the trips between Earth and the moon, said ILC Dover's Ayrey. Adopting the hard suit, he said, "would have called for a much different vehicle than the Apollo Command Module, which had very limited space on board."

The hard suits did have one advantage over the soft suits: "When in use and pressurized, the hard suits did not compress as did the soft, fabric suits," Ayrey explained.

"So in terms of physics, the air did not compress while under pressure, thus resulting in less effort on the part of the astronaut when bending the various joints, such as [in] the arms and legs."

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When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: twenty-one layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles. This book is the story of those spacesuits. It is a story of the triumph over the military-industrial complex by the International Latex Corporation, best known by its consumer brand of "Playtex"—a victory of elegant softness over engineered hardness, of adaptation over cybernetics.

Playtex’s spacesuit went up against hard armor-like spacesuits designed by military contractors and favored by NASA’s engineers. It was only when those suits failed—when traditional engineering firms could not integrate the body into mission requirements—that Playtex, with its intimate expertise, got the job. In Spacesuit, Nicholas de Monchaux tells the story of the twenty-one-layer spacesuit in twenty-one chapters addressing twenty-one topics relevant to the suit, the body, and the technology of the twentieth century. He touches, among other things, on eighteenth-century androids, Christian Dior’s New Look, Atlas missiles, cybernetics and cyborgs, latex, JFK's carefully cultivated image, the CBS lunar broadcast soundstage, NASA’s Mission Control, and the applications of Apollo-style engineering to city planning. The twenty-one-layer spacesuit, de Monchaux argues, offers an object lesson. It tells us about redundancy and interdependence and about the distinctions between natural and man-made complexity; it teaches us to know the virtues of adaptation and to see the future as a set of possibilities rather than a scripted scenario. ]]> Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:59:49 http://mlkshk.com/p/61B7

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Cause you gotta look cool when you're on the moon.

From the Apollo 13 Press Kit:
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