2012-04-01
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photo 20:11:00
A radiograph of the EX-1A “hard” space suit, as designed by Bill Elkins, featured in a gallery accompanying a New York Times article on the Smithsonian’s collection.
The Garret AiResearch EX-1A used toroidal joints to maintain a constant volume, useful when maintaining a pressurised environment. It never flew, and its successor, the AirResearch AES suit, was chosen for missions 18 to 20 of the Apollo programme- missions that never happened.
More photos and video of the EX-1A can be found at The Fox Is Black. This photograph: Mark and Roland Cunningham.
