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Topic: Apollo A7L spacesuit: outer fabric texture
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chameloon
Member Posts: 44
From: Europe
Registered: Jan 2014
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posted 04-16-2014 01:56 PM
  
I am a bit puzzled about the beta cloth "texture" on the A7L spacesuit... On some pictures it looks shinny (a bit like silk) and on others, matte. Is it always the same fabric, and it is only the pictures that makes feel it is different, or there were two sets of different beta cloth fabrics (eg. one for training, one for the moon missions)? Thanks.  |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 04-16-2014 06:18 PM
It's both, depending on the lighting. I've been able to touch a A7L-series suit with my bare hands, and it gives a feel I've never been able to accurately describe. No other surface feels like that. But photos I've taken of a few suits have turned out either shiny or not depending on the lighting. |
Spaceguy5
Member Posts: 427
From: Pampa, TX, US
Registered: May 2011
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posted 04-16-2014 10:07 PM
Yeah, it's just beta cloth, which is just very tightly knit fiberglass impregnated with teflon. Even if you look at pictures of the space shuttle payload bay (also beta cloth), you see the same effect... farther away pictures, it looks matte. But up close and especially with flash on, you'll see a 'silky' look. | |
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