Spacesuit : fashioning Apollo /
Chronicles the creation of the Apollo 11 spacesuits worn by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, which were designed by the women's undergarment-maker Playtex and consisted of 21 specialized layers, in a book that includes 140 full-color illustrations.
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Space/suit
- The new look
- The new look in defense planning
- Flight and suits
- Cyborg
- Flight suit to space suit
- Man in space
- Bras and the battlefield
- JFK
- Contractual physiology
- Simulation
- The moon suit plays football
- Handmade
- Hard suit 1
- "We've got a signal!"
- Hard suit 2
- Control space
- Cities and cyborgs
- 21 layers.