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Topic: Apollo spacesuits and astronaut portraits
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lunareagle
Member Posts: 587
From: Michigan
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 05-06-2009 07:22 PM
   
Does anyone know for certain which pressure suit the astronauts wore for their WSS (White Space Suit) photos? (Flight, training, back-up?) |
Matt T
Member Posts: 1368
From: Chester, Cheshire, UK
Registered: May 2001
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posted 05-13-2009 12:41 PM
Anecdotal but maybe of use to you -A collector I corresponded with some years ago owned a light-weight version of the A7L ITMG. He'd been in touch with a contact from the Apollo days at ILC who'd identified it as a 'photo suit'. ILC fabricated a number of cosmetically accurate facsimiles of the A7L (and presumably A7LB) for display, with less layers inside and no PGA. This was also confirmed in a vintage article concerning ILC that I read in the last few years but irritatingly I can't find it. Just thought I'd throw it out there anyway. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3207
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 11-12-2014 07:35 AM
Which astronauts wearing the A7LB (EV) spacesuits in their WSS portraits never wore that suit type in space, or never flew in space? Can you add to the list? - Jack Swigert
- Ron Evans
- Jim McDivitt
- Joe Engle
- Tony England
- Vance Brand
- Don Lind
- Rusty Schweickart
- Dick Truly
- Bruce McCandless
- Hank Hartsfield
- Story Musgrave
- Bob Overmyer
- Karol Bobko
- Charles Fullerton
- Bob Crippen
- Karl Henize
- William Lenoir
- Joe Allen
- Donald Peterson
- William Thornton
- Robert Parker
- Donald Holmquest
- Philip Chapman
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LM-12
Member Posts: 3207
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 11-14-2014 08:54 PM
Dave Scott, Al Worden, Jim Irwin and William Pogue have mission emblems on the spacesuits in their WSS portraits.Gene Cernan has an Apollo 10 mission emblem on his A7LB (EV) suit, which is not historically accurate. |
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