ultra high-tech spacesuits
Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0"
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:19:32 -0700
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Correspondent:: "Rev. ErRoR"
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 01:09:13 GMT
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In article <41F81774.663B@succeeds.com>, nu-monet v7.0
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> http://tinyurl.com/6x9f7
I used to wear one of these when I was part of Foxhound. They called it
a 'Skull Suit'.
err.
Correspondent:: "Rev. Richard Skull"
Date: 26 Jan 2005 17:15:07 -0800
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Just about all the NASA Suits have been made in Delaware by Platex,
then a spin-off ILC.
When I was in school, lost of the kids in my class had Fathers whos
worked for ILC. And after the Appollo 11 Landing and before the Appollo
12 (whose lander was named Snoopy) they had a special Snoopy Doll made
up with Snoopy wearing an Apollo Moon Suit.
I wonder how much one of them would be worth now.
Also a few years baack, a guy was selling Moon Dust taken off the
Apollo Space Suits by his father who was a suit Tech for ILC.
And on of the E-7's in my old National Guard unit was a Space Suit
tester fro ILC. He would wear them in and out of a pool to test all the
features.
He once almost drowned trying to test a new heavy duty space glove for
the space station. It was supposed to hold up under rough abuse for
building & maintaining the Station. But while using the space tools
under water, the cloves were breached and water pour into the suit.
They barley got him out of the water in time.
And back in 1988, when ILC closed down their old Downtown Dover plant
(where the suit were actually made in htose days) they had a "yard
sale" where anyone could go in an buy thier "Space Junk". They had
tones of crap! Varius prototype suits dating all the way back to the
Mercury Program. A spare X-15 Pressure suit, some testing suits form
the Apollo program!
Man it was cool!