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Topic: McDonnell Douglas development spacesuit
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Spacepsycho
Member Posts: 818
From: Huntington Beach, Calif.
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted 12-18-2019 12:16 PM
   
I have a question about a spacesuit I came across from a scientist whose estate is being sold. There is a Liquid Cooling Garment (LCG) vest, a roll of Beta cloth, miscellaneous box of parts and sewing fabric LCG tests and a cool pair of Converse All Stars with cooling tubes around it. The star of the collection is a Beta cloth jacket with liquid cooling layer, electrical wiring and the tag reads: NASA/Manned Spacecraft Center
Evaporative Cooling Garment System
Development Test Model
Part No. 1T33172
Designed & Mfg. by
McDonnell Douglas Astronautics
Contract No. NAS9-7207 I'm assuming this is a prototype spacesuit for the Apollo program. The suit has two connector holes cut in it, zippered arms and obviously many hundreds of hours were put into it.Does anyone know about the McDonnell Douglas spacesuit program?  
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-21-2019 12:21 PM
After a bit of reading, I was able to find that McDonnell Douglas contributed to the development of the LCG from its start in 1962 through the Apollo program.Based on the contract number, the pieces you found were produced as part of a study into an Evaporative Cooling Garment System (ECGS) "for body cooling during extravehicular activity in space." You can find the 1968 report detailing this work here. |
Spacepsycho
Member Posts: 818
From: Huntington Beach, Calif.
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted 12-22-2019 02:12 PM
Robert, thanks for the link to the McDonnell Douglas LCG program that was headed by Jack Bitterly. I had the opportunity to purchase Mr. Bitterly's estate last week. In Jack's collection I found the McDonnell Douglas LCG test garments in the photos and I found three more extraordinary items. One is an experimental LCG vest made out of transparent PVC with water tubes impressed in it by ILC Dover, a complete LCG long underwear and a really cool LCG helmet on a heavy metal mannequin head. I also have 15 to 20 boxes of the ECGS test paperwork, research and correspondence dealing with these LCG. Included in the collection was Jack's collection of his US Flywheel Co., where he designed carbon fiber and aluminum flywheels spun up to 100,000 rpm to store and use the wheels energy for electricity and to power vehicles. Jack was an amazing man, phenomenal scientist and a visionary. | |
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