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Many of you are probably familiar with the Apollo Suit Serial Numbers table in the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. I have listed those numbers in sequence and, as you can see, there are some gaps in the numbers. Can you add to the list?

What were the suit numbers for the Skylab crews?

  • 004 - Schirra: Apollo 7 flight suit
  • 005 - Eisele: Apollo 7 flight suit
  • 006 - Cunningham: Apollo 7 flight suit
  • 007 - Stafford: Apollo 7 backup crew primary suit
  • 008 - Young: Apollo 7 backup crew primary suit
  • 009 - Cernan: Apollo 7 backup crew primary suit
  • 010 - Schirra: Apollo 7 backup suit
  • 011 - Eisele: Apollo 7 backup suit and Apollo 10 backup crew primary suit
  • 012 - Cunningham: Apollo 7 backup suit
  • 013 - Scott: Apollo 9 backup suit
  • 014 - McDivitt: Apollo 9 backup suit
  • 015 - Schweickart: Apollo 9 flight suit + Engle: Apollo 14 backup crew training suit
  • 016 - Conrad: Apollo 9 backup crew primary suit
  • 017 - Gordon: Apollo 9 backup crew primary suit
  • 018 - Bean: Apollo 9 backup crew primary suit
  • 019 - Scott: Apollo 9 flight suit
  • 020 - McDivitt: Apollo 9 flight suit
  • 021 - Schweickart: Apollo 9 backup suit + Duke: Apollo 13 backup crew training suit
  • 026 - Collins: Apollo 11 training suit
  • 029 - Borman: Apollo 8 backup suit
  • 030 - Borman: Apollo 8 flight suit
  • 031 - Anders: Apollo 8 flight suit
  • 032 - Anders: Apollo 8 backup suit
  • 033 - Collins: Apollo 11 flight suit
  • 034 - Collins: Apollo 11 backup suit
  • 035 - Armstrong: Apollo 8 backup crew primary suit and Apollo 11 training suit
  • 036 - Aldrin: Apollo 8 backup crew primary suit and Apollo 11 training suit
  • 037 - Lovell: Apollo 8 flight suit
  • 042 - Stafford: Apollo 10 backup suit
  • 043 - Young: Apollo 10 flight suit
  • 044 - Cernan: Apollo 10 flight suit
  • 045 - Cooper: Apollo 10 backup crew primary suit
  • 046 - Mitchell: Apollo 10 backup crew primary suit and Apollo 14 backup suit
  • 047 - Stafford: Apollo 10 flight suit
  • 048 - Young: Apollo 10 backup suit
  • 049 - Cernan: Apollo 10 backup suit
  • 051 - Haise: Apollo 8 backup crew primary suit
  • 052 - Lovell: Apollo 8 backup suit
  • 054 - Anders: Apollo 11 backup crew primary suit
  • 055 - Lovell: Apollo 8 training suit + Brand: Apollo 15 backup crew training suit
  • 056 - Armstrong: Apollo 11 flight suit
  • 057 - Armstrong: Apollo 11 backup suit
  • 058 - Worden: Apollo 15 training suit
  • 059 - Gordon: Apollo 12 backup suit + Mattingly: Apollo 13 primary suit and Apollo 16 training suit
  • 060 - Haise: Apollo 11 backup crew primary suit and Apollo 13 backup suit
  • 061 - Haise: Apollo 13 flight suit
  • 062 - Duke: Apollo 13 backup crew primary suit
  • 063 - Scott: Apollo 12 backup crew primary suit
  • 064 - Engle: Apollo 14 backup crew primary suit + Evans: Apollo 17 training suit
  • 065 - Conrad: Apollo 12 flight suit
  • 066 - Gordon: Apollo 12 flight suit
  • 067 - Bean: Apollo 12 flight suit
  • 068 - Conrad: Apollo 12 backup suit
  • 070 - Bean: Apollo 12 backup suit
  • 071 - Cooper: Apollo 10 backup crew training suit
  • 072 - Mattingly: Apollo 16 backup suit
  • 073 - Mitchell: Apollo 14 flight suit
  • 074 - Lovell: Apollo 11 backup crew primary suit and Apollo 13 backup suit
  • 076 - Aldrin: Apollo 11 backup suit + Schmitt: Apollo 15 backup crew training suit
  • 077 - Aldrin: Apollo 11 flight suit
  • 078 - Lovell: Apollo 13 flight suit
  • 080 - Irwin: Apollo 12 backup crew primary suit
  • 081 - Worden: Apollo 12 backup crew primary suit and Apollo 15 backup suit
  • 082 - Mattingly: Apollo 16 flight suit
  • 084 - Shepard: Apollo 14 backup suit
  • 085 - Roosa: Apollo 14 flight suit and Apollo 16 & 17 backup crew training suit
  • 086 - Young: Apollo 13 backup crew primary suit
  • 087 - Cernan: Apollo 14 backup crew primary suit
  • 088 - Swigert: Apollo 13 flight suit
  • 090 - Shepard: Apollo 14 flight suit
  • 091 - Roosa: Apollo 14 backup suit
  • 092 - Evans: Apollo 14 backup crew primary suit
  • 094 - Worden: Apollo 15 flight suit
  • 096 - Brand: Apollo 15 backup crew primary suit

  • 303 - Young: Apollo 16 training suit and Apollo 17 backup crew training suit
  • 304 - Duke: Apollo 16 training suit and Apollo 17 backup crew training suit
  • 305 - Haise: Apollo 16 backup crew training suit
  • 309 - Gibson: Skylab 4 training suit
  • 310 - Conrad: Skylab 2 training suit
  • 311 - Scott: Apollo 15 training suit
  • 312 - Irwin: Apollo 15 training suit
  • 313 - Gordon: Apollo 15 backup crew training suit
  • 314 - Schmitt: Apollo 17 training suit
  • 315 - Scott: Apollo 15 flight suit + Cernan: Apollo 17 training suit
  • 316 - Irwin: Apollo 15 backup suit
  • 317 - Gordon: Apollo 15 backup crew primary suit
  • 318 - Schmitt: Apollo 15 backup crew primary suit and Apollo 17 backup suit
  • 319 - Scott: Apollo 15 backup suit
  • 320 - Irwin: Apollo 15 flight suit
  • 321 - Mitchell: Apollo 16 backup crew training suit
  • 322 - Young: Apollo 16 flight suit
  • 323 - Duke: Apollo 16 backup suit and Apollo 17 backup crew primary suit
  • 324 - Haise: Apollo 16 backup crew primary suit
  • 325 - Mitchell: Apollo 16 backup crew primary suit
  • 326 - Young: Apollo 16 backup suit and Apollo 17 backup crew primary suit
  • 327 - Duke: Apollo 16 flight suit
  • 328 - Cernan: Apollo 17 flight suit
  • 329 - Schmitt: Apollo 17 flight suit
  • 330 - Cernan: Apollo 17 backup suit

  • 401 - Roosa: Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 backup crew primary suit
  • 402 - Evans: Apollo 17 backup suit
  • 403 - Brand: ASTP training suit
  • 404 - Evans: Apollo 17 flight suit

  • 602 - Conrad: Skylab 2 backup suit
  • 603 - Kerwin: Skylab 2 training suit
  • 604 - Weitz: Skylab 2 training suit
  • 605 - Schweickart: Skylab 2 backup crew primary suit
  • 606 - Musgrave: Skylab 2 backup crew primary suit
  • 607 - McCandless: Skylab 2 backup crew training suit
  • 608 - Bean: Skylab 3 training suit
  • 609 - Garriott: Skylab 3 training suit
  • 610 - Lousma: Skylab 3 training suit
  • 611 - Brand: Skylab 4 backup crew primary suit and Skylab Rescue backup suit
  • 612 - Lenoir: Skylab 3 and Skylab 4 backup crew training suit
  • 613 - Lind: Skylab 3 and Skylab 4 backup crew training suit and Skylab Rescue flight suit
  • 614 - Conrad: Skylab 2 flight suit
  • 615 - Kerwin: Skylab 2 flight suit
  • 616 - Weitz: Skylab 2 backup suit
  • 617 - Weitz: Skylab 2 flight suit
  • 618 - McCandless: Skylab 2 backup crew primary suit
  • 620 - Bean: Skylab 3 backup suit
  • 621 - Garriott: Skylab 3 backup suit
  • 622 - Lousma: Skylab 3 backup suit
  • 623 - Brand: Skylab Rescue flight suit
  • 624 - Lenoir: Skylab 3 and Skylab 4 backup crew primary suit
  • 625 - Lind: Skylab 3 and Skylab 4 backup crew primary suit
  • 626 - Carr: Skylab 4 flight suit
  • 627 - Pogue: Skylab 4 flight suit
  • 628 - Gibson: Skylab 4 flight suit
  • 631 - Kerwin: Skylab 2 backup suit
  • 632 - Bean: Skylab 3 flight suit
  • 634 - Garriott: Skylab 3 flight suit
  • 635 - Lousma: Skylab 3 flight suit + Carr: Skylab 4 backup suit
  • 636 - Gibson: Skylab 4 backup suit
  • 637 - Pogue: Skylab 4 backup suit

  • 801 - Stafford: ASTP flight suit
  • 802 - Stafford: ASTP backup suit
  • 803 - Slayton: ASTP flight suit
  • 804 - Evans: ASTP backup crew primary suit
  • 805 - Slayton: ASTP backup suit
  • 806 - Brand: ASTP flight suit
  • 807 - Brand: ASTP backup suit
  • 808 - Lousma: ASTP backup crew primary suit
  • 809 - Bean: ASTP backup crew primary suit

Update: Skylab suit numbers were added on 05-20-2020. Thanks, Rolf!

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Suits in the table assigned to more than one astronaut:
  • 015 - Schweickart and Engle
  • 021 - Schweickart and Duke
  • 055 - Lovell and Brand
  • 059 - Gordon and Mattingly
  • 064 - Engle and Evans
  • 076 - Aldrin and Schmitt
  • 315 - Scott and Cernan
015 and 315 are flown suits.

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Very thorough work.

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posted 05-18-2020 12:35 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
There are a lot of missing training suit numbers.

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In 2018, after consultation and with the permission of Bill Ayrey of ILC, I expanded and adapted the overview in the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal.

Here are the Apollo, Skylab and ASTP Suit Serial Numbers (spreadsheet).

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posted 05-18-2020 11:23 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thank you for providing those additional numbers. Can I add your Skylab suit numbers to the list?

Some Skylab suit numbers shown in A Field Guide to American Spacecraft are slightly different.

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posted 05-19-2020 01:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Looks like Lousma's Skylab 3 flight suit (#635) was Carr's Skylab 4 backup suit.

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Outstanding work sir! Do you know if a list like this is available for the Gemini suits and training suits as well?

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There are some Gemini suit numbers in the "A Field Guide to American Spacecraft" link mentioned earlier.

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I suspect that Mike Collins' Apollo 11 suits (#026, 033 and 034) may have also been his Apollo 8 suits when he was on that original crew, based on where the suits are located on the list.

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The list also shows that Apollo 9 was originally Apollo 8.
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Some Skylab suit numbers shown in A Field Guide to American Spacecraft are slightly different.
Bill Ayrey of ILC provided the Skylab suit numbers. Yes you can add the numbers to your list.

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That's great! Thank you, Rolf. Skylab numbers have been added to the list.

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Apollo 15 was planned as a H-mission when the prime and backup crews were announced in March 1970. They trained from April to August, including suit fits. Those must have been A7L suits. I wonder what the suit numbers were.

It was announced in September 1970 that the Apollo 15 H-mission was cancelled, and the flight was changed to a J-mission. Just prior to that, Dave Scott had an A7LB suit fit on August 20.

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I stumbled across these figures for the number of Apollo A7L space suits delivered. The total number is 176 suits:
  • Apollo 7-14 ... 90 suits
  • Apollo 15-17 ... 40 suits
  • Skylab ... 37 suits
  • ASTP ... 9 suits

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Those must have been A7L suits. I wonder what the suit numbers were.
Very interesting! The change from the Apollo 15 H- to a J-mission is indeed missing in Bill Ayrey's overview.

Hopefully this will be clarified in: "Lunar Outfitters: Making the Apollo Space Suit" – October 6, 2020 by Bill Ayrey.

Where did you find the information of the fit check at ILC on August 20, 1970?

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posted 05-21-2020 03:45 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The suit fit shows up in the Apollo 15 Crew Training Summary on pdf page 29.

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Stuart Roosa's flown Apollo 14 suit (#085) was re-used again as his Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 backup crew training suit. Here is a museum photo of the suit.

It may also be the suit he is wearing in this Apollo 16 backup crew photo. Note the location of the NASA insignia on his suit.

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Apollo 14 flown suit #085 has on the right side (left side in the picture) the communications connector, the O2 inlet gas connector and the O2 exhaust gas connector.

On the photo of the Apollo 16 backup crew Roosa probably is wearing suit #401. This contains a second set of gas connectors at the left side (right side in the picture).

It seems unlikely that the suit of the National Air and Space Museum has flown.

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I seem to recall reading somewhere that his flown suit had been modified.

Regarding the A7LB CMP suits, Bill Ayrey mentions in "ILS Spacesuits & Related Products" that the retro-fitted A7L suits had a plate-like plug to cover the hole where the Multiple Water Connector (MWC) used to be. It looks like you can see that plate-like cover in the Apollo 16 backup crew photo. So maybe Roosa is wearing a retro-fitted A7L suit in that photo. The NASA meatball location also seems to indicate it was an earlier A7L suit.

He also says the new 400 series suits did not have a plate to cover the MWC hole. This launch day photo of Ron Evans (#404) seems to show that.

The suit in the museum photo does not look like either of those.

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Wow! Really interesting research.

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The suit table indicates that Roosa only had two Apollo 16 backup crew suits: primary suit #401, and training suit #085 (his Apollo 14 flown suit).

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Bill Ayrey's explanation of the retrofitted A7L suits and the 400 series suits is very informative.

Does the National Air and Space Museum have an external access to a more detailed description of the objects in their collection? Then it may become clear which number the 'flown' suit of Roosa has on the museum photo.
Unfortunately unreadable, but the number of the suit must be stated on the label inside the neckring on the right.

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Such a description would be helpful.

I also noticed that the NASM describes the three flown Apollo 8 A7L suits as the EV configuration. Weren't all three flown suits the IV type?

Here is the NASM description for the flown Lovell Apollo 8 suit.

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Yes you are right about the IV type. However, the suits from Borman and Anders looked like the EV configuration on the outside because of the extra oxygen connectors and the multiple water connector.

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That can be confusing. Even ILC seems to have gotten it wrong once. I have seen an ILC document that lists suit 031 (Anders' Apollo 8 flown) as an A7L EV suit.

That same document has these suit numbers:

  • Apollo 7-14:
    A6L 001-025 (EV)

  • Apollo 7-14:
    A7L 001-090 (EV and IV-CMP)

  • Apollo 15-17:
    A7L 091-096 (EV and IV-CMP)
    A7L 301-330 (EV)
    A7L 401-404 (IV-CMP)

  • Skylab:
    A7L 601-637 (EV)

  • ASTP:
    A7L 801-809 (IV-CMP)

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Page 51 of "ILC Space Suits & Related Products 0000-712731 Rev. A":
A special intravehicular suit was developed for Apollo 8. This suit had three layers of protection that replaced the TMG of the previous suit. It was not designed for EVA, and would be used only to protect the occupant while inside the capsule.

The outer layer of this garment was a new material called Super Beta. Super Beta was a further attempt to extend the life of the Teflon-coated Beta by coating the glass fibers with Teflon before weaving.

The intravehicular suit was used by all of the astronauts during Apollo 8, and by the center couch occupant (CM pilot) for the remainder of the Apollo missions. The Super Beta replaced Teflon-coated Beta cloth as the outer material on Apollo 10 and subsequent ITMGs.

Apollo 8 NASA Press Kit release NO: 68-208 page 75:
Apollo 8 crewman, until one hour after translunar injection, will wear the intravehicular pressure garment assembly — a multi-layer spacesuit consisting of a helmet, torso and gloves which can be pressurized independently of the spacecraft.

The spacesuit outer layer is Teflon-coated Beta fabric woven of fiberglass strands with a restraint layer, a pressure bladder and an inner high-temperature nylon liner.

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Did ILC ever take back used Apollo suits for material testing?

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Addition to spreadsheet Apollo, Skylab and ASTP Suit Serial Numbers.
The displayed landmark Apollo suit at the ILC Dover company museum is the Model A7L, serial number 036, delivered to NASA in September, 1968. It was manufactured as a primary flight suit for Astronaut Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin as a member of the Apollo 8 backup crew. Aldrin then used it as his training suit for the Apollo 11 mission. This suit was later returned to ILC Dover by NASA so that it could be modified as a training suit to support Astronaut William Pogue for the Skylab Mission he flew in November 1973.
Source: 'Apollo Space Suit 1962-1974 Frederica, Delaware, A Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark, September 20, 2013, ILC, page 1.

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Thanks for that additional info. Interesting to note that the Apollo 8 backup crew all wore A7L-EV suits because Aldrin moved to CMP when Haise joined the crew.

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Another addition to the spreadsheet?

It seems very likely that the primary suit (051) of Haise as a backup crewmember of Apollo 8 became his training suit for Apollo 13. An indication for this is the blue neckring on the portrait of the crew in front of the Saturn V (KSC-70PC-0073).

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Yes, it could have been his Apollo 13 training suit. 051 could also have been his training suit on the Apollo 11 backup crew.
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...a training suit to support astronaut William Pogue
Apollo 14 training photo S69-64029 shows Pogue wearing Aldrin's suit. Pogue was a member of the support crew.

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Mattingly's Apollo 13 training suit would be another addition to the spreadsheet. There is no spot for that.

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Thanks for the valuable tips about suit 051 on the Apollo 11 backup crew and the information about the training suit 059 of Mattingly.

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These are the suit numbers worn by the command module pilots on the three Apollo J-missions:
  • Worden on Apollo 15: suit 094
  • Mattingly on Apollo 16: suit 082
  • Evans on Apollo 17: suit 404
Those numbers indicate to me that Worden and Mattingly wore former A7L suits that were modified into A7LB suits. Is that correct?

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Armstrong's Apollo 11 flight suit 056 was delivered on February 11, 1969. Aldrin's Apollo 11 flight suit 077 was delivered on April 25, 1969. Those are ILC dates.

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Those numbers indicate to me that Worden and Mattingly wore former A7L suits that were modified into A7LB suits.
Yes, I think this is correct!

However, it seems that on the Worden and Mattingly suits the plate-like plug has been replaced or covered by a round piece of white fabric.

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I have processed the information about the suits of Aldrin, Poque, Haise and Mattingly and have revised the Apollo, Skylab and ASTP Suit Serial Numbers spreadsheet.

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That's great. Maybe we can eventually fill in more empty cells.

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Regarding the Apollo 8 crew A7L-IV suits, I think there was an EVA planned for the Borman crew when they were originally going to fly on the Apollo 9 E-mission. That would have required at least one A7L-EV suit.

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quote:
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An indication for this is the blue neckring
Apollo 14 backup crewmen Cernan and Engle also wore suits with a blue neck ring during training. Engle's training suit was 015. Maybe Cernan's was 049.


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