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Auction window at Bonhams featuring a space suit worn by Flight Engineer Don Petit of ISS Expedition 6 on his return to Earth aboard the Soyuz TMA-1 following the Columbia disaster, and astronaut plaster hand casts used to make gloves for spacesuits, ca 1967.
ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer wearing the SpaceX spacesuit.
Credit: SpaceX
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Kansas Cosmosphere
The SK-1 was the latest in a long line of suits built by Zvezda ("star"), the Soviet Union's leading maker of aircraft pressure suits and ejection seats. The firm built its first pressure suit in 1952-53. Zvezda products orbited Earth before Gagarin's flight. The dogs Belka and Strelka rode in a Zvezda-built container during the second unmanned Vostok test flight in August 1960, and SK-1 suits containing dummies flew two unmanned Vostok flights in March 1961.
Over the course of six Vostok flights that carried cosmonauts, Zvezda continuously improved the SK-1. In 1963, the firm modified an SK-1 for Vostok 6 cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. Her suit, designated SK-2, featured narrow shoulders, glove improvements and other changes.
The First Space Suit
Vostok 1 lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 12, 1961, with Yuri Gagarin on board. The pioneering cosmonaut wore a protective SK-1 space suit similar to the one displayed here. This suit, used for training Vostok cosmonauts, was very likely worn by Gagarin as he trained for his historic voyage into space.
The 51-pound SK-1 suit was built up of layers with different purposes. The orange outer layer made it easy for recovery helicopters to spot the cosmonaut on the ground. Other layers prevented chafing and provided ducts for air circulation. Four layers would keep the cosmonaut warm and dry if he splashed down in icy water. A flotation collar would then inflate to keep him afloat until help arrived. The SK-1 helmet visor shut automatically for launch, reentry, and in case the Vostok capsule lost pressure. Pockets held a pistol, a knife, a radio, and shark repellant.
A Last-Minute Addition
As Gagarin suited up for his historic Vostok 1 flight, someone recalled that U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers had, a year earlier, parachuted into the Soviet territory wearing a pressure suit. If all went as planned, Gagarin would land unannounced in Russia's Saratov farming region. A technician quickly painted "CCCP" on Gagarin's helmet to prevent him from being mistaken for an invading American. The letters, which in Russian stand for "USSR," were later added to other SK-1 suits.
Catalog #: 10_0008476
Title: Convair/General Dynamics Plant and Personnel
Corporation Name: Convair/General Dynamics
Additional Information: Space Suit
Tags: Convair/General Dynamics Plant and Personnel, Space Suit , Convair/General Dynamics
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer wearing the SpaceX spacesuit.
Credit: SpaceX
ID: SPACEX_Crew3_MATTHIAS_SUITATP_100921_DSC_5814
Space suit and mission insignia patch worn by Dave Scott during the Apollo 15 lunar landing in July 1971. On display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Fashion designer Emilio Pucci was asked to design the patch. Scott was the one who approached him. Pucci came up with the idea of three highly stylized "birds" in blue and green on a square patch. The crew changed the shape to round and the colors to red, white, and blue. (White represented Worden, blue represented Scott, and red represented Irwin.) The patch shows the three arcs over a photograph of Hadley Rille -- the section of the moon where Apollo 15 was to land. The shadows of the craters just to the center-right of the stylized birds form the Roman numeral XV. (NASA insisted that the mission number be displayed.)
The dust you see on the suit is moondust.
Apollo 15 was fourth manned mission to the Moon. It was designed to last a lot longer than previous stays on the Moon, so that additional scientific experiments could be conducted. The mission began on July 26, 1971, and concluded on August 7.
Commander David Scott and Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin landed the Lunar Module "Falcon" on the Moon, and spent three days there. This included 18.5 hours outside the LM. This was the first mission to not land on a "mare" (the so-called "lunar seas", or flat and smooth plains of basaltic lava). Instead, Apollo 15 landed near Hadley rille near Palus Putredinus (the Marsh of Decay). The crew explored the area using the Lunar Rover. Pilot Alfred Worden flew the Command Module "Endeavor" in orbit above the Moon, conducting numerous science experiments and even deploying a satellite in lunar orbit.
The spacesuit worn on Apollo 15 was a new design. Previous Apollo flights featured a suit with the life support, cooling, and communications connections in front in two parallel rows of three. The Apollo 15 "A7L-B" suit, however, placed these in triangular pairs. The zipper was also redesigned. The old zipper went up-and-down. But the new zipper went from the right shoulder to the left hip, and included a waist joint. This meant the astronauts could actually bend over for the first time, and sit on the Lunar Rover. Upgraded backpacks also permitted more time spent outside the LM.
Worden also wore a new spacesuit. While orbiting the Moon, he wore a three-connector suit. But Worden was scheduled to make a spacewalk during the flight home from the Moon. This suit had five connections (not six, since there was no need for liquid cooling). During his spacewalk, he retrieved film cartridges from an experiment on the exterior of the spacecraft.
Completed detailing of the backpack of the NASA Artemis Spacesuit- in LEGO!
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ISS036-E-038556 (30 Aug. 2013) --- NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Expedition 36 flight engineer, works on an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit in the Quest airlock of the International Space Station.
NASA astronaut Eric Boe wears Boeing's new spacesuit designed to be worn by astronauts flying on the CST-100 Starliner. The suit is lighter and more flexible than previous spacesuits but retains the ability to pressurize in an emergency. Astronauts will wear the suit throughout the launch and ascent into orbit as well as on the way back to Earth. Starliners will launch atop Atlas V rockets from United Launch Alliance on missions including flights to the International Space Station for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. NASA's commercial crew astronauts Boe and Suni Williams tried on the suits at Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Boe, Williams, Bob Behnken, and Doug Hurley were selected by NASA in July 2015 to train for commercial crew test flights aboard the Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. The flight assignments have not been set, so all four of the astronauts are rehearsing heavily for flights aboard both vehicles. Photo credit: Boeing
Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Mercury Doll:
Manufacturer:
Country of Origin:
United States of America
Dimensions:
Approximate: 3 ft. 1 in. tall x 1 ft. 1 in. wide x 9 in. deep (93.98 x 33.02 x 22.86cm)
Materials:
Doll: Plastic, rubber
Helmet: Plastic, aluminium
Spacesuit: Nylon, brass, aluminium
Boots: Plastic
This small version of a Mercury spacesuit was one of perhaps a dozen made by the B .F. Goodrich Corporation in the early 1960s. They were given to VIPs for goodwill and publicity purposes. It looks almost identical to the suits worn by Mercury astronauts, but it has no interior pressure bladder, and the helmet and boots are much simplified versions of the full-size equipment.
Found in collection. Donor unknown at this time. Found on NASM premises.
jsc2025e044425 (May 6, 2025) --- NASA astronaut Chris Williams poses for a photo in an Extravehicular Mobility Unit spacesuit during vacuum chambers testing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Credit: NASA/James Blair
A suit technician prepares for a pressure test of Boeing's new spacesuit designed to be worn by astronauts flying on the CST-100 Starliner. Seen here being worn in the same manner as it will on launch day inside Crew Quarters at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the suit is lighter and more flexible than previous spacesuits but retains the ability to pressurize in an emergency. Astronauts will wear the suit throughout the launch and ascent into orbit as well as on the way back to Earth. Starliners will launch atop Atlas V rockets from United Launch Alliance on missions including flights to the International Space Station for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt in spacesuit.
Marcus Wandt from Sweden will travel to the International Space Station on Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3). He will spend up to 14 days in orbit conducting microgravity research and educational activities.
Marcus is the first of a new generation of European astronauts to fly on a commercial human spaceflight opportunity with Axiom Space. His mission is supported by ESA and the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA).
Marcus Wandt was selected in November 2022 as a member of the ESA astronaut reserve after a year-long selection process. The 2022 ESA recruitment campaign received over 22 5000 applications from across its Member States.
Credits: SpaceX
Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev (Russian: Серге́й Константинович Крикалёв, also transliterated as Sergei Krikalyov; born August 27, 1958) is a Russian cosmonaut and mechanical engineer. As a prominent rocket scientist, he is a veteran of six space flights and ranks third to Gennady Padalka and Yuri Malenchenko for the amount of time in space: a total of 803 days, 9 hours, and 39 minutes.[1] He retired from spaceflight in 2007 and is currently working as vice president of Space Corporation Energia.
Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Mir
1.2 Space Shuttle
1.3 International Space Station
2 Time dilation record
3 Missions
4 Awards
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Biography
Krikalev was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia. He enjoys swimming, skiing, cycling, aerobatic flying, and amateur radio operations, particularly from space (callsign U5MIR). He graduated from high school in 1975. In 1981, he received a mechanical engineering degree from the Leningrad Mechanical Institute, now called Baltic State Technical University.
After graduation in 1981, he joined NPO Energia, the Russian industrial organization responsible for manned space flight activities. He tested space flight equipment, developed space operations methods, and participated in ground control operations. When the Salyut 7 space station failed in 1985, he worked on the rescue mission team, developing procedures for docking with the uncontrolled station and repairing the station's on-board system.
Mir
Krikalev was selected as a cosmonaut in 1985, completed his basic training in 1986, and, for a time, was assigned to the Buran Shuttle program. In early 1988, he began training for his first long-duration flight aboard the Mir space station.
This training included preparations for at least six EVAs (space walks), installation of a new module, the first test of the new Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), and the second joint Soviet-French science mission. Soyuz TM-7 was launched on November 26, 1988, with Krikalev as flight engineer, Commander Alexander Volkov, and French astronaut Jean-Loup Chrétien. The previous crew (Vladimir Titov, Musa Manarov, and Valeri Polyakov) remained on Mir for another 25 days, marking the longest period a six-person crew had been in orbit. After the previous crew returned to Earth, Krikalev, Polyakov, and Volkov continued to conduct experiments aboard the Mir station. Because arrival of the next crew had been delayed, they prepared the Mir for a period of unmanned operations before returning to Earth on April 27, 1989.
In April 1990, Krikalev began preparing for his second flight as a member of the backup crew for the eighth long-duration Mir mission, which also included five EVAs and a week of Soviet-Japanese operations. In December 1990, Krikalev began training for the ninth Mir mission which included training for ten EVAs. Soyuz TM-12 launched on May 19, 1991, with Krikalev as flight engineer, Commander Anatoly Artsebarsky, and British astronaut Helen Sharman. Sharman returned to Earth with the following crew after one week, while Krikalev and Artsebarsky remained on Mir. During the summer, they conducted six EVAs to perform a variety of experiments and some station maintenance tasks.
In July 1991, Krikalev agreed to stay on Mir as flight engineer for the next crew, scheduled to arrive in October because the next two planned flights had been reduced to one. The engineer slot on the Soyuz TM-13 flight on October 2, 1991, was filled by Toktar Aubakirov, an astronaut from the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, who had not been trained for a long-duration mission. Both he and Franz Viehböck, the first Austrian astronaut, returned with Artsebarsky on 10 October 1991. Commander Alexander Volkov remained on board with Krikalev. After the crew replacement in October, Volkov and Krikalev continued Mir experiment operations and conducted another EVA before returning to Earth on March 25, 1992.
Throughout his various missions aboard Mir, Krikalev regularly communicated with various amateur radio operators (hams) across the globe. A particularly lengthy relationship was formed between Krikalev and amateur radio operator Margaret Iaquinto. At one point during one of his stays in space, he contacted her once a day for an entire year. Krikalev and Iaquinto successfully communicated via packet radio for the first time in history between an orbiting space station, and an amateur radio operator. They communicated about personal matters, as well as political ones. Iaquinto set up a makeshift digital bulletin board that the Mir cosmonauts would often use to obtain uncensored western news and information regarding the state of the collapsing Soviet Union.[2]
Krikalev was in space when the Soviet Union was dissolved on December 26, 1991. With the Baikonur Cosmodrome and the landing area both being located in the newly-independent Kazakhstan, there was a lot of uncertainty about the fate of his mission. He remained in space for months longer than planned, and returned to a very different country.[3][4] These events are documented and contextualized in Romanian filmmaker Andrei Ujică's 1995 documentary Out of the Present.[5] A fictional account of how Krikalev may have felt about this is described in the song Casiopea, written by Cuban songwriter Silvio Rodríguez. Another fictional work inspired by Kiralev story is Sergio & Sergei, a 2017 film directed by Ernesto Daranas.[6]
Space Shuttle
Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev dons a training space suit.
In October 1992, NASA announced that an experienced cosmonaut would fly aboard a future Space Shuttle mission. Krikalev was one of two candidates named by the Russian Space Agency for mission specialist training with the crew of STS-60. In April 1993, he was assigned as prime mission specialist. In September 1993, Vladimir Titov was selected to fly on STS-63 with Krikalev training as his back-up.
Krikalev flew on STS-60, the first joint U.S./Russian Space Shuttle Mission. Launched on February 3, 1994, STS-60 was the second flight of the Space Habitation Module-2 (Spacehab-2), and the first flight of the Wake Shield Facility (WSF-1). During the eight-day flight, the crew of Discovery conducted a wide variety of materials science experiments, both on the Wake Shield Facility and in the Spacehab, earth observation, and life science experiments. Krikalev conducted significant portions of the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) operations during the flight. Following 130 orbits of the Earth in 3,439,705 nautical miles (6,370,334 km), STS-60 landed at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 11 February 1994. With the completion of this flight, Krikalev logged an additional eight days, seven hours, nine minutes in space.
Krikalev returned to duty in Russia following his American experience on STS-60. Periodically he returned to the Johnson Space Center in Houston to work with CAPCOM in Mission Control and ground controllers in Russia supporting joint U.S./Russian Missions. To date he has supported STS-63, STS-71, STS-74 and STS-76.
Krikalev and Robert Cabana became the first people to enter the ISS in December, 1998, when they turned on the lights in the US module Unity.
Sergei Krikalev with James H. Newman on the left during STS-88
Krikalev flew on STS-88 Endeavour (4–15 December 1998), the first International Space Station assembly mission. During the 12-day mission the Unity Module was mated with Zarya module. Two crew members performed three space walks to connect umbilicals and attach tools and hardware for use in future EVAs. The crew also performed IMAX Cargo Bay Camera (ICBC) operations, and deployed two satellites, Mighty Sat 1 and SAC-A. The mission was accomplished in 185 orbits of the Earth in 283 hours and 18 minutes.
International Space Station
Krikalev was a member of the Expedition 1 crew. They launched October 31, 2000, on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, successfully docking with the station on November 2, 2000. During their stay on the station they prepared the inside of the orbital outpost for future crews. They also saw the station grow in size with the installation of the U.S. solar array structure and the U.S. Destiny Laboratory Module. They left the station with the STS-102 crew, undocking from the station on 18 March with landing at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 21 March 2001.
Krikalev was also the Commander of Expedition 11. He lived and worked aboard the International Space Station on a six-month tour of duty. This was the third time he had flown to the International Space Station. Expedition 11 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 14 April 2005 aboard a Soyuz spacecraft and docked with the ISS on 16 April 2005. Following 8 days of joint operations and handover briefings, they replaced the Expedition 10 crew who returned to earth aboard Soyuz. Expedition 11 plans called for two spacewalks, the first in August from the US Quest Airlock in US spacesuits, and the second, in September, in Russian spacesuits from the Pirs airlock. On August 16, 2005 at 1:44 a.m. EDT he passed the record of 748 days held by Sergei Avdeyev.[1]
Expedition 11 undocked from the ISS on 10 October 2005 at 5:49 p.m. EDT and landed in Kazakhstan on 10 October 2005 at 9:09 p.m. EDT. They were replaced by William S. McArthur and Valery Tokarev, the crew of Expedition 12.[1]
In completing his sixth space flight, Krikalev has logged 803 days and 9 hours and 39 minutes in space, including eight EVAs. He is currently third to Gennady Padalka and Yuri Malenchenko in the record for the most time spent in space.
Krikalev's contributions to the ISS were not limited to his on-orbit time. On June 15, 2007, it was Krikalev himself who was brought into the Russian Mission Control center to instruct Expedition 15 Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov on how he and ISS Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin could jump-start the Russian segment's crippled computer systems.
On February 15, 2007, Krikalev was appointed Vice President of the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (Russian: Ракетно-космическая корпорация "Энергия" им. С.П.Королева) in charge of manned space flights. In that office, he is the administrator of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center.
Time dilation record
Krikalev holds the record of most time dilation experienced by a human, having gained 22.68[not in citation given] milliseconds on his journeys to space beating the previous record of 20 milliseconds held by Sergei Avdeyev.[7]
Missions
Soyuz TM-7: Launched November 26, 1988
Soyuz TM-12: Launched May 19, 1991
STS-60 Space Shuttle Discovery: Launched February 3, 1994
STS-88 Space Shuttle Endeavour: Launched December 4, 1998
ISS Expedition 1: Launched October 31, 2000
ISS Expedition 11: Launched April 14, 2005
Awards
He was a member of the Russian and Soviet national aerobatic flying teams, and was Champion of Moscow in 1983, and Champion of the Soviet Union in 1986.
For his space flight experience, he was awarded:
the title of Hero of the Russian Federation;
the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (USSR);
the title of Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR (USSR);
the Order of Lenin (USSR);
Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class;
Order of Honour;
Order of Friendship of Peoples (USSR);
Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration";
Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg".
Foreign awards:
Officer of the Legion of Honour (France);
NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal (USA);
three NASA Space Flight Medals (USA).
He overtook Sergei Avdeyev's previous record for the career total time spent in space (747.59 days) during Expedition 11 to the International Space Station. Krikalev has logged a total of 803 days and 9 hours and 39 minutes in space.
On 23 May 2007 Sergei Krikalev was selected as an honorary citizen of Saint Petersburg together with conductor Valery Gergiev.
Krikalev was one of five cosmonauts selected to raise the Russian flag at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
ISS037-E-029014 (5 Nov. 2013) --- In the International Space Station's Pirs docking compartment, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy, Expedition 37 flight engineer, wearing his Russian Orlan spacesuit, prepares for a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) scheduled for Nov. 9, 2013.
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.
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ISS036-E-038552 (30 Aug. 2013) --- NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Expedition 36 flight engineer, works on an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit in the Quest airlock of the International Space Station.
A major challenge of the Apollo Program was designing a spacesuit that would endure temperatures ranging from +250F (121C) to -200F (-129C). It had to protect against ultraviolet radiation and micrometeroites, and seal out the vacuum of space while still allowing the astronauts to carry out their tasks.
"Lunar Wardrobe"
A liquid-cooled undergarment made of knitted nylon-spandex with 265 feet of plastic tubing was used to circulate cooling water from the Portable Life Support System. An outer pressure garment (spacesuit) of 18 layers including a helmet and gloves and provided meteroite and thermal protection. The elbows, shoulders, wrist, knee, waist and ankle joints were rubber coated allowing the astronauts limited movement for working on the Moon. Caps worn under the helmet had microphones and earphones. On later flights, a quart bag of drink water was attached inside the helmet. The gloves had fingertips made of silicon rubber to provide increased sensitivity.
Other componenets of thesuit included:
-an Extra Vehicula Activity (EVA) visor assembly which fit over the helmet and protected the astronaut from impact, thermal, ultraviolet and infrared rays.
-a Portable Life Support System (PLSS) backpack containing oxygen, cooling water and communications equipment. It also absorbed carbon dioxide and removed excess humidity from the air supply.
-an Oxygen Purge System (OPS) providing more than one hour of emergency air supply.
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Find these sexy new space suits at the 2023 Fandom Con under the Mindgardens Creations store, next to the sim sponsor, Star Mesh Body!
These space suits are rigged to the Star Mesh Body but with a body alpha, anyone can wear it.
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This is a close-up of the sleeve and gloves of Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk, seen during a training session for the Soyuz TMA-15 flight in 2009. ESA astronaut Frank De Winne was seated next to Thirsk in the Soyuz simulator, supervised by their commander, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko.
On 27 May 2009, Soyuz TMA-15 was launched to the International Space Station starting De Winne's six-month OasISS mission. De Winne and Thirsk were members of the first six-person ISS Expedition crew. Later in this mission, De Winne also became the first European to become the ISS Commander.
For more information:
www.esa.int/SPECIALS/OasISS_Mission/index.html
Credit: ESA/S.Corvaja
A major challenge of the Apollo Program was designing a spacesuit that would endure temperatures ranging from +250F (121C) to -200F (-129C). It had to protect against ultraviolet radiation and micrometeroites, and seal out the vacuum of space while still allowing the astronauts to carry out their tasks.
"Lunar Wardrobe"
A liquid-cooled undergarment made of knitted nylon-spandex with 265 feet of plastic tubing was used to circulate cooling water from the Portable Life Support System. An outer pressure garment (spacesuit) of 18 layers including a helmet and gloves and provided meteroite and thermal protection. The elbows, shoulders, wrist, knee, waist and ankle joints were rubber coated allowing the astronauts limited movement for working on the Moon. Caps worn under the helmet had microphones and earphones. On later flights, a quart bag of drink water was attached inside the helmet. The gloves had fingertips made of silicon rubber to provide increased sensitivity.
Other componenets of thesuit included:
-an Extra Vehicula Activity (EVA) visor assembly which fit over the helmet and protected the astronaut from impact, thermal, ultraviolet and infrared rays.
-a Portable Life Support System (PLSS) backpack containing oxygen, cooling water and communications equipment. It also absorbed carbon dioxide and removed excess humidity from the air supply.
-an Oxygen Purge System (OPS) providing more than one hour of emergency air supply.
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these hexagon tiles showing astronauts were done for Sunrise Moonbase, a 2004 Burning Man project by omino et al:
This is another picture of Lieutenant Commander Kyle (that would be me:) ) on the command deck of her ship, HDF Glisette.
The Lt. Cdr. is from Home, a system in the Sagittarius Rift of the Milky Way, a couple thousand parsecs from Sol. She is a member of the Home Defense Fleet, and is on detached duty from the 2nd Response Force. During the Infection War she served as second-in-command of the 1st Squadron/Sub-Orbital Strike on HDF Elliptic Harmony.
One thing I like about rp at Botany Bay is that its an open format. There are those from Firefly sims, BSG, star trek, and others. I like being able to make up my own backstory - which as the previous paragraph hints - I have done in far too much detail. But I like it. :)
outfit: Defense black and white, by GRAVES (Jackie Graves)
hair: Rhiannon, by Sirena (Natalia Zelmanov)
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Mockup of the Krechet spacesuit that would have been worn on the moon by Soviet Cosmonauts if moon landings had taken place. On display at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC.
A13_0067Jack Swigert Suits Up for Launch4/11/1970KSCNASA108-KSC-70P-169, 70-H-496Jack Swigert adjusting his spacesuit the morning of the launch of Apollo 13. His suit displays the Apollo 13 patch, which was (presumably) a last minute addition to his spacesuit. “KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - John L. Swigert, Jr., Apollo 13 command module pilot, adjusts spacesuit today during prelaunch activities preceding his flight with astronauts James A. Lovell, Jr., and Fred W. Haise, Jr., on the nation's third manned lunar landing mission.”
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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A blueprint of my lego MOC, NASA Artemis Spacesuit that is being designed by NASA now for the moon exploration from 2020's
Title: Space Suit
Catalog #: 08_01494
Additional Information: Full Pressue Space Suit
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive