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Topic: Apollo comm cable: use and photos in use?
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garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 12-25-2010 07:50 AM
   
I need help finding exactly what this was used for and photos of it in use. A friend says it is part of the communications cable between the snoopy hat and astronaut suit or spacecraft. It feels like a ribbon cable inside the blue sheath and the small connector looks like a Mini-USB. In the 1960s? Wow. Thank you, and a big thank you to cS friend Lou Chinal who sent this to me.  
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SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4437
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-25-2010 08:07 AM
Looks like a PGA electrical harness from the biosensor/comms system. |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 12-25-2010 08:08 AM
I think it passed through one of these connectors into the suit.
 (Scott, why are we answering cS posts instead of opening Christmas presents?) |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4437
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-25-2010 08:11 AM
This is more stimulating.  |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 12-25-2010 08:17 AM
Scott what is a PGA harness? If the blue round connector passed through ilbasso's connector into the suit, where/what did the other connectors attach too? Regarding opening presents, this made my holiday season when it arrived! |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-25-2010 08:23 AM
 Pressure Garment Assembly (PGA) Electrical Harness via myspacemuseum.com |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 12-25-2010 08:48 AM
Thank you Robert. Here's a cleaned up version of this graphic. Now - how to tell if it is flown, training etc?  |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4437
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-25-2010 12:38 PM
Flight articles would have been teflon/beta cloth covered. The good news is you have an Extra Vehicular A7LB version identified by its shorter cable between the connector and bio-harness (the A7LB Command Module Pilot IV variant, which is reflected in the above drawing has a longer umbilical from the electrical connector to the bio-harness; the upper interface to the communications carrier was the same length for both the EV/IV versions). |
Lou Chinal
Member Posts: 1306
From: Staten Island, NY
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 12-25-2010 07:27 PM
Gary it is I who should thank you!As some of you may or may not know Gary is a Vice President of HANS Performance Products. On October 17th 2004, a HANS helmet literally saved my neck. Not in a race car accident, but while skydiving (the same type of helmets are used and yes I have jumped with Mary Ellen Weber STS-70 and 101). I fractured C-6 and C-7 in my neck, it heeled perfectly. When I think what might have been(Christopher Reeves), the rods and screws in my legs were kids stuff. As far as the cable goes I think it came from a prototype/training suit unflown. I have no idea who's suit it was. Steve Smith (stsmithva)- When I see you again at the Air and Space museum I hope to be looking at you at eye level, I'm out of the wheelchair now. |
music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 12-25-2010 09:27 PM
Nice testimonial!I had the pleasure of sharing Mike Mullane's family dinner table with Gary at the ASF Autograph Show in November 2008. |
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