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Old July 31st 19, 05:05 AM posted to sci.space.policy
Scott Kozel
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Default Artemis 3 Mission in 2024

On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 9:33:41 PM UTC-4, JF Mezei wrote:
On 2019-07-30 19:47, Greg (Strider) Moore wrote:

Yes, but again, the skills necessary to actually MAKE them may not be
available.


NASA has people who maintain the current suits, still train new
astraunauts in them etc. Surely they have some expereince in house?

Ig yuou know of the zipper flaws of the original Apollo suits, surely
NASA folks would also know of it?


The USAF Museum just put several Apollo suits on display, I saw them last
weekend when I visited.

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Vi...pace-suit1969/

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Vi...lity-unit1971/

All suits onsite --

Mercury Space Suit—1963
Gemini G4C Space Suit—1966
Model A7L Space Suit—1969
Model A7LB Extravehicular Mobility Unit—1971
Space Shuttle Extravehicular Mobility Unit
Space Shuttle Advanced Crew Escape Suit 1994-2011

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Vi...Space-Gallery/