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Originally Posted by rdbob
7. Astronoughts space suits were made of layered plastic, That must have been some of the best plastic we ever made cause we don't have any today like that.
13. Why was nothing floating in the Apollo space craft when they were orbiting the moon and when landing? Since they were in no gravity absolutely nothing was floating.
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I'll just pick a couple at random since they beat me to the liftoff camera one.
The suits are made the same way today. It's multi-layered with the outer cover for protection for the actual pressure suit. Of course I'm not an expert on spacesuits but we do still use them today so it stands to reason that they were designed and built sometime in the past. Perhaps as part of the early space programs, say. We do still have folks in space you know.
And I don't know where you get that nothing was floating around. There's plenty of footage of things floating around. Not while landing because they were too busy flying to have stuff floating around or to play with cameras for that matter. So it was all stowed. Either stowed or secured with...velcro! Why they even velcroed the astronauts to the floor.
Welcome to the board.
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Here's a page about the suit layers, complete with a nifty drawing though it's almost too small to be useful.