Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo

by Nicholas de Monchaux

Book Overview

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. This book is the story of that spacesuit. It is a story...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007YXVPLY
• ISBN13: 9780262015202
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher