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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: De Monchaux, Nicholas, 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011.
Subjects:
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.