Apollo Program A7L Suit
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English: Developed for Project Apollo the A7L Apollo spacesuit was the primary pressure suit worn by NASA astronauts on all space flights until the termination of the Apollo program in 1975.
Service
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English: Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 EMU displayed prior to the mission.
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English: The A7L Primary Life Support System
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English: Publicity shot of Neil Armstrong in his space suit.
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English: Buzz Aldrin wearing the A7L spacesuit on the moon.
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English: Donald "Deke" K. Slayton suits up for an altitude test of the Apollo command module.
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English: Astronaut Jack Lousma during a Skylab 3 EVA.
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English: David Scott's Apollo 15 space suit in the Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC.
Evolution
[edit]Predecessors
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English: The experimental Litton USAF Mark I Extravehicular and Lunar Surface Suit which predated both Sputnik and NASA.
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English: Official portrait of Gordon Cooper while wearing the Project Mercury spacesuit derived from the US Navy Mark IV pressure suit.
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English: Neil Armstrong in a Gemini G-2C training suit
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English: Ed White wearing the A1C version of the Apollo suit.
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English: The Apollo 1 crew pose in 1967 in an earlier evolution of the Apollo space suit.
Successors
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English: John Young wearing a Space Shuttle Ejection Escape Suit from the early Shuttle program
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English: Rick Mastracchio in a Shuttle Program EMU, in effect an anthropomorphic miniature space craft.
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English: LES, launch and entry suit, modeled by a technician.
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English: Mission specialist Nicholas J. M. Patrick in an ACES spacesuit, a descendent of the Gemini suits.
Schematics
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English: Intravehicular configuration of the A7L suit worn by the commander and lunar module pilot.
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English: Lunar EVA configuration of the A7L spacesuit as used for lunar EVA's on Apollo 11, 12, and 14.
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English: A7L intravehicular configuration assembly worn by the command module pilot in Apollo 7-14.
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English: Apollo A7LB space suit in its lunar EVA configuration.