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Author De Monchaux, Nicholas, 1973-

Title Spacesuit : fashioning Apollo / Nicholas de Monchaux.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
©2011

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 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  629.4772 DE    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 364 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Note Includes references to the role of Hamilton Standard/United Aircraft in the developement of the spacesuit.
"The Hamilton Standard "Tiger suit" [photo] in 1965 testing"--P. 190.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Space/suit -- The new look -- The new look in defense planning -- Flight and suits -- Cyborg -- Flight suit to space suit -- Man in space -- Bras and the battlefield -- JFK -- Contractual physiology -- Simulation -- The moon suit plays football -- Handmade -- Hard suit 1 -- "We've got a signal!" -- Hard suit 2 -- Control space -- Cities and cyborgs -- 21 layers.
Local Note WNDSR--This book is the gift of the Windsor/Windsor Locks Rotary in honor of Al Boehm.
Subject Space suits -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Manned space flight -- History -- 20th century.
Technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Project Apollo (U.S.) -- Public opinion -- History -- 20th century.
United Technologies Corporation. Hamilton Standard Division.
Fashion -- History -- 20th century.
Art, Municipal -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
ISBN 9780262015202 hardcover alkaline paper
026201520X hardcover alkaline paper
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