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[i]Yes, it was back when I was still in engineering working on Apollo. I had an interest in learning more about the space operations and NASA had a program where you could volunteer to be a test subject for testing of suits, so I volunteered. At the time I did that, the program was in the process of qualifying what they call the Apollo B suit. This was before we were launching the missions with the lunar rover. The original Apollo suit that the crews were using inside the Command Module, when you pressurized them they’d basically straighten you out. You couldn’t sit in a chair, because it didn’t have what they call a waist convolute. So the B suit was designed with a waist convolute so the crews could sit. Of course this was all designed around the fact that they were going to be sitting in the lunar rover and driving it. They had to requalify the suit for that and I was involved in some of the qualification tests.[/i]
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