Taken at the Air and Space Museum.

I love this shot of my son. On MLK Jr. Day, we visited the Nixon Library where it displayed Apollo 11 memorabilia, including this spacesuit like those worn during the mission. In the first grade, my son did a report on Astonaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon. So he was quite excited to see an astronaut spacesuit up close. Because I learned so much about Buzz through my son's report, I became a big Buzz fan myself! PS: Do you see me in the middle of the helmet?

What does the inside of a spacesuit really look like? Well, until now, only the original engineers could tell you. That made taking care of space garments very difficult for folks like Amanda Young, former spacesuit specialist at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

“You can’t pull a suit apart to see what's going on inside,” said Young. “You can either look down its neck with a flashlight or you can x-ray it. With the x-ray images, works of art themselves, you can see the ball bearings, the fibers, the sewing holes, and the rubber convoluted joints at the elbows, thighs, and knees that enabled the astronaut to walk.”

Enter the photographic experts, Mark Avino and Ron Cunningham. Together, they x-rayed the spacesuits—a process that requires about 35 sheets of x-ray film per suit.

Photo by James Kegley. (We'd love for you to use this image, but please credit Mr. Kegley :-)

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This spacesuit was used for training at Kennedy Space Center. It is one of three custom suits made for Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan.

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New Mexico Museum of Space History

Inside of the "backpack" on a russian space suit

This is Armstrong's backup spacesuit for Apollo 11. It weighs 190 pounds on earth, and about 32 pounds on the moon.

Coburg Carnivale event at Victoria St Mall on Saturday 4 October 2014. Featured Polyglot Theatre giant ants, a triplet of musical cows, Westside circus, two dancing zebras, the Positive Charge polar bear, balloon sculptor, and various acrobats and entertainers.

Undated handout photo issued by Bonhams of a Soviet spacesuit, worn by Cosmonaut Gennadi Strekalov during a mission to the Mir space station in 1990

www.betweenideas.blogspot.com March 2011

Patent, 1968

Exposition stanley kubrick / Paris / 2001 space odyssey

This spacesuit was worn by John Glenn during the first orbital flight of a U.S. astronaut. The flight took place on February 20, 1962 and lasted for 4 hours and 55 minutes, during which time he traveled 75,679 miles and orbited the earth three times. This spacesuit was developed by the B.F. Goodrich Company from the U.S. Navy MK-IV full pressure suit and was selected by NASA in 1959 for use in Project Mercury.

For more photography highlights, check out the Air and Space Photo: airandspace.si.edu/albums/air-and-space-photo

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Testing Sokol spacesuit.

Credit: ESA-A. Gerst

The Russian extravehicular spacesuit called "Orlan", was made in the LEGO Brickheadz theme!

The building instruction is available in Rebrickable.

Exposition stanley kubrick / Paris / 2001 space odyssey

Technik Museum Sinsheim und Speyer (www.technik-museum.de)

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Exposition stanley kubrik / Paris / 2001 space odyssey

PictionID:42608206 - Title:Spacesuit Assembly ---Additional Information:Spacesuit Assembly; Front View ; ---Date:09/27/1961 - Catalog:14_002260 - Filename:14_002260.tif - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum

Alien Spacesuit Costume

Exposition stanley kubrick / Paris / 2001 space odyssey

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Winchester, Virginia 2011

A13_0029 Jack Swigert Undergoing Spacesuit Checks 4/8/70

Location: KSC Photo from NASA

NASA or USGS No: 108-KSC-70P-151; 70-H-475

Jack Swigert getting his spacesuit checked.NASA Caption: “KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA.-John L. Swigert, Jr., the backup crewman who is being considered as Apollo 13 command module pilot in place of Thomas K. Mattingly II, due to Mattingly's exposure to measles, undergoes spacesuit checks during a recent training exercise at the Kennedy Space Center.”

This image is part of a collection to commemorate the 45th Anniversary of the Apollo 13 Mission.

The San Diego Air and Space Museum is celebrating the 2015 Centennial of the Pan American Exposition by honoring one of the most memorable space flights in history. The Apollo 13 crew, astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise, join the San Diego Air & Space Museum Saturday, March 21st for a rare 45th Anniversary Celebration appearance and personal recap of their historic mission. The celebration also honors the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo race to the moon and those people who made it happen.

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"Suited for Space," developed by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), chronicles the history of the spacesuit, from the 1920s to the Space Shuttle era.

The exhibit includes dozens of life-size images and banners of spacesuits in the collection at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

Photo by James Kegley. (We'd love for you to use this image, but please credit Mr. Kegley :-)

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Kansas Cosmosphere

Spacesuit and Schoolroom: Enos Couch

This is the couch the chimp Enos rode into orbit during the Mercury-Atlas 5 (MA-5) mission. The enclosed couch served the same protective function as the Mercury astronauts' silver space suit. If the Mercury capsule sprang a leak, the couch would provide Enos with life-sustaining oxygen.

The couch was also a "school room." Housed in its cover was a psychomotor apparatus that gave Enos four problems to solve. For example, Enos picked out the odd shape from a set of three shapes. If he failed, he received a mild electric shock. Another problem rewarded him with banana pellets. Completing the four problems earned him a rest, then the cycle repeated.

[Chimpanzee Enos, prior to launch onboard Mercury-Atlas 5, is shown hying in the flight couch (on display above), awaiting insertion into the spacecraft.]

Mercury-Atlas 5 in Orbit

On November 29, 1961, MA-5 was ready. Doctors gave 39-pound Enos a physical exam and strapped him into his couch. Five hours before launch, technicians loaded couch and chimp into the Mercury capsule. At 10:08 a.m., Enos lifted off. During his five-minute climb to orbit he experienced 7.6 gravities of acceleration. The Atlas rocket placed Enos into an orbit with a low point of 99 miles and a high point of 147 miles.

The first of three planned orbits was uneventful, then problems began. The psychomotor apparatus gave Enos shocks even when he correctly solved his problems, and a failed steering thruster allowed the capsule to drift. Then the life support system malfunctioned, sending the temperature climbing.

[Enos, the second chimpanzee to fly in space, is shown here with his handler]

An Early Return Paves The Way For Man Mission

Control decided to bring Enos home one orbit early. He experienced 7.8 gravities of acceleration during the flaming passage through the atmosphere. Splashdown was on target in the Atlantic. Four and a half hours after launch, Enos was safe on board the destroyer Stormes.

Had a human astronaut flown MA-5, the mission would probably have achieved its planned three orbits. An astronaut could’ve, for example, switched to manual control to solve the thruster problem. NASA was pleased with Enos's flight. At the MA-5 post-flight press conference, NASA officials announced that Mercury-Atlas 6 would launch John H. Glenn into orbit.

Dave Scott's Apollo 15 moonwalk spacesuit.

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PictionID:42608238 - Title:Spacesuit Assembly ---Additional Information:Spacesuit Assembly; with backpack/thermocover ; ---Date:09/27/1961 - Catalog:14_002261 - Filename:14_002261.tif - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum

Exposition stanley kubrick / Paris / 2001 space odyssey

Exposition stanley kubrik / Paris / 2001 space odyssey

“Spanish Colonel Don Emilio Herrera Linares designed and built a full pressure suit in 1935, which was to have been used during an open-basket balloon stratospheric flight scheduled for early 1936. The Spanish Civil War intervened.”