Monday, October 2, 2006
Craphound finds Gemini space suit
A friend of Coop's walked into an antique mall in Kansas and walked out with a genuine space suit from NASA's Gemini program, circa 1963. From Coop's blog post about this incredible score:
LinkIt is most definitely the real deal, a suit that never went into space, but was used for high-altitude pressure tests during the Gemini program. There were around thirty of these suits made, and this is the only one that wasn’t destroyed or put in a museum somewhere.
To be in the presence of this artifact is thrilling. It’s like seeing Lincoln’s stovepipe hat, except Lincoln’s hat was never worn by a freakin’ ASTRONAUT.
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