A Spacesuit Ballet

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Uploaded by on Mar 31, 2011

Of the suit he wore on the moon, Neil Armstrong wrote, "it was tough, reliable, and almost cuddly." But that cuddly suit, made by the company Playtex, had some stiff competition (literally) from rival rigid, metal designs. This video features archival NASA footage of mobility tests for several spacesuit prototypes. Music is from the band One Ring Zero's album "Planets".

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  • These were, despite comical appearances of these tests, serious designs for space suits. The advantage of these designs is that they were full-pressure suits, up to 14 psi, thereby cutting down the time needed to pre-breathe pure oxygen.

  • Obviously all this research was used to fake the moon landing. ;P

  • Oh cool a new video haha kinda funny.. 1:07 looks like bubble boy lol

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