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Topic: Astronauts wearing the 'wrong' spacesuit
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Philip
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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 04-02-2020 08:34 AM
   
1994, Norman Thagard and Bonnie Dunbar started training at Star City, Moscow. Bonnie Dunbar often wore the Sokol suit of Yelena Kondakova. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 4047
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 04-03-2020 06:43 AM
Have seen a photo of Thagard and Dunbar training in Russian spacesuits. Dunbar is wearing Kondakova's suit. Thagard might be wearing Alexander Viktorenko's suit. |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-03-2020 12:31 PM
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Originally posted by Rick Mulheirn:
Tom Sylvester's suit
There is an undated photo here of Walt Cunningham showing what looks like Sylvester's A7L suit at an ILC Dover press conference. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 53883
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-22-2020 10:43 AM
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Originally posted by LM-12:
Cosmonaut Vitali Sevastyanov wore an Apollo spacesuit during a 1970 Skylab underwater EVA training exercise...
Photos of Sevastyanov wearing the A7L spacesuit, via a NASA feature about his and Nikolayev's visit to the United States. 
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Philip
Member Posts: 6299
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 04-13-2021 11:38 AM
I remember seeing a 1969 photo of Dr von Braun wearing a Gemini space suit and going into a pool in order to be convinced that the NBL Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory water tank would be of great benefit. |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 01-13-2025 01:49 PM
Bill Pogue wearing Buzz Aldrin's suit:
Apollo 14 support astronaut William Pogue tests the MET during parabolic flight.  |
Philip
Member Posts: 6299
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 01-15-2025 03:27 AM
Interesting to see Walt Cunningham presenting the Apollo space suit at ILC Dover, while during Gemini era, Michael Collins was responsible for space suit and EVA.By August 1967, the A6L spacesuit was replaced by the heavier and more flexible A7L spacesuit, with Beta Fabric replaced by Nomex and Kapton Beta fiberglass insulation replaced with Mylar-Dacron insulation. The photo with Walt Cunningham was probably August 1968 and ILC had two suit engineers aka "test subjects" presenting the spacesuit: Tom Sylvester and Ronald Woods. |
MarylandSpace
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Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 01-15-2025 07:46 PM
Neat and interesting thread. |
Philip
Member Posts: 6299
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 01-18-2025 09:14 AM
NASA photo S76-30470 dated December 1976 shows female "test subject" Debbi Guichard and NASA suit technician Al Rochford checking out an Apollo era spacesuit on a treadmill.The spacesuit had "Conrad" nametag on it.  |
Philip
Member Posts: 6299
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 01-30-2025 01:57 AM
In July 1964, both John Young and Gus Grissom were pictured wearing a pressure suit with nametag Regular/Medium as the early Gemini suits were not yet attributed to a specific astronaut. |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 01-30-2025 12:56 PM
I guess his Apollo suit wasn't available, because there is this Apollo 7 training photo of backup CMP John Young inside the command module wearing a Gemini suit with what looks like a Medium Regular name tag.  |
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