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    The Suits That Carried Our Heroes To The Moon

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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    07/17/09

    In reply to The Suits That Carried Our Heroes To The Moon
    I cannot believe how brave those astronauts were. Imagine putting on one of those iffy-looking suits and hoping they didn't fail when you had to walk on the moon. Heroes, indeed.
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    Image of Jes St.Lawrence Jes St.Lawrence
    07/17/09

    In reply to The Suits That Carried Our Heroes To The Moon
    I'm
    too sexy for asbestos,
    too sexy for asbestos,
    Connections & Cosmos.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    07/17/09

    In reply to The Suits That Carried Our Heroes To The Moon
    Where are the sexy skin tight suits MIT was working on?
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    Image of Belabras ate my dingo! Belabras ate my dingo!
    07/17/09

    @LittleDragon:
    Those aren't a done deal yet. Currently Oceaneering International has the contract for the new suits.

    see here: http://www.spacecoalition.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/4/29/New%20Space%20Suit%20Back%20on%20Track
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    Image of Belabras ate my dingo! Belabras ate my dingo!
    07/17/09

    In reply to The Suits That Carried Our Heroes To The Moon
    Very, very cool.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/17/09

    In reply to The Suits That Carried Our Heroes To The Moon
    Growing up in DC, countless field trips were spent going to see the various Smithsonian Museums and the Air and Space never, ever, got boring or repetitive. I would walk as slow as possible through Skylab's thin walkway to absorb as much as I could.
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    07/17/09

    In reply to The Suits That Carried Our Heroes To The Moon
    Those are some fantastic pictures!
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    Image of Aethelred Aethelred
    07/17/09

    In reply to The Suits That Carried Our Heroes To The Moon
    Back when Air&Space was ina Quonset beside the Castle, they would let you sit in a [never launched] Mercury capsule and push the "fire retro rockets" button when the recorded Mission Control said to do so. It was so cool, but even as a kid of 9, I found the capsule a tight squeeze.
    Memories.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/17/09

    @Aethelred: Same here. I never could figure out how grown-up men could fit into that, in a bulky spacesuit. How claustrophobic. But I guess you're too busy trying not to DIE IN OUTER SPACE to worry about that.
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    Image of MahaliaLibnut MahaliaLibnut
    07/17/09

    In reply to The Suits That Carried Our Heroes To The Moon
    what's the pic of the indonesian PD investigating a hotel bombing have to do with this?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    07/17/09

    @MahaliaLibnut: Uh.... it's becuase the Indoniesian police are thinking about the Lunar landings..... ummm.. Let me try and fix that.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/17/09

    @MahaliaLibnut: The lamp behind them does look a bit like a rocket booster, and they are kind of in space suits.
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