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Thursday, 3 February 2011

James Burke and the Apollo spacesuit



This is one of the things I recall most vividly from the BBC's coverage of the Apollo 11 landing. Maybe I'd read Have Spacesuit, Will Travel too many times, but I really wanted one of these.



James May trying it out in reverse decades later. I suspect that this replica isn't that accurate or Mr May would have been dying of heat exhaustion by the time he went for his cheeseburger.
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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousThursday, 3 February 2011 at 00:28:00 GMT-8

    unless of course it's a sufficiently accurate reproduction that it incorporates the air-conditioned undersuit...
    still damn heavy though

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