NASA’s new Prada-designed space suit looks like an Apollo dupe, but it’s so much more
when the designers at Collins Aerospace created suits for the Apollo 15 mission. Back then, red stripes were added to the ...
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A Space Suit Ahead of Its Time
(Most of the motions in this video would not have been possible in the Apollo suit.) The EX-1A (which on the moon would have been covered with a cloth material) is pressurized 35 percent higher ...
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AstroPicture of the Week: The remarkably diverse suits worn by astronauts
Shepherd’s MK IV – Custom variant of the MK IV suit, used by Alan Shepard. ・Soviet SK-1 – Worn by Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, designed for Vostok program. ・Apollo SPD 143 ...