Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas De Monchaux

Mit Press

Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo

Nicholas De Monchaux

364 pages paperback

1 edition

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How the twenty-one-layer Apollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph of intimacy over engineering. 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 ...

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