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Bucky

(54,065 posts) Sat Oct 19, 2013, 10:32 PM Oct 2013

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USAF's first space/lunar suit, built two years before Sputnik

This is the ELSS, circa 1955. That's the Mark I Extravehicular and Lunar Surface Suit

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USAF's first space/lunar suit, built two years before Sputnik (Original Post) Bucky Oct 2013 OP

I wonder if it would work? Tobin S. Oct 2013 #1

Wiley Post would have tested in in a New York minute Brother Buzz Oct 2013 #2

Who stripped the paint off the Black Knight? pinboy3niner Oct 2013 #3

"WARNING, WILL ROBINSON! DANGER! DANGER!" Aristus Oct 2013 #4

Robbie's long lost cousin I presume? gejohnston Oct 2013 #5

Tobin S.

(10,418 posts)

1. I wonder if it would work?

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Sun Oct 20, 2013, 02:16 AM

Oct 2013

I don't think I'd want to be the one to test it.

Brother Buzz

(36,463 posts)

2. Wiley Post would have tested in in a New York minute

Reply to Tobin S. (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 20, 2013, 04:24 AM

Oct 2013

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

3. Who stripped the paint off the Black Knight?

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Sun Oct 20, 2013, 05:40 AM

Oct 2013

Aristus

(66,462 posts)

4. "WARNING, WILL ROBINSON! DANGER! DANGER!"

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Sun Oct 20, 2013, 11:36 AM

Oct 2013

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)

5. Robbie's long lost cousin I presume?

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Sun Oct 20, 2013, 02:42 PM

Oct 2013

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