Mike Flugennock wrote:

I was an astronaut in the Cub Scout pageant in DC in 1965, me and six
other kids in my pack at Fort Myer. I made my helmet by coating a balloon
with papier mache and spray-painting it silver. Came out awesome.

My Cub Scout space helmet was an inverted plastic garbage can with
vertical rectangular holes cut in it, and strips of Plexiglas glued over
the holes...it looked like something out of Jules Verne.... tell me you
weren't as dumb as I was, and didn't try to build that Lunar gravity
simulator outlined in "Boy's Life".

Pat