Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo
Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo
Playtex • MIT Press • ISBN-13 9780262015202
ISBN-10 0262015202 • 2011
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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 fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles.
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