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contract is he competed for the charles design and build the new apollo space suits one company. i. l. c. dover went to great lengths with a publicity stunt that showed their suit playing american football and winning the nasa contract by a touchdown. necklace to more show has extensively researched the development of the stage in his book space suit fashioning apollo. but he tells me that in the early sixty's, i elsie dave who was a compared to be small company, best known for making women's underwear under the brand name, play, tex. even at the time, people in nasa called plaintext, i'll say partially as a, as a cult. like we're calling call someone by their nickname, partly as a kind of like can you believe we're dealing with plato? despite the company's lack of experience making protective clothing. they're flexible and heidi intricate design made it a clear winner. and incredibly after they won the nasa contract. skilled

seamstresses who had previously been sewing browse and girdles were moved to the painstaking job. assembling the apollo space seeds the cause. the suit ended up being put together out of $21.00 layers of fabric and not like $21.00 layers of fabric. just cutter cut out like a like a sandwich and some together. but actually 21 different suits. put one inside of the other like a russian doll and then um sonya to a 643 inch torrance without any pins because the pins high puncture the pressure layer. um this was a kind of ha, ha, ha kelly and nor olympic feet of sewing. and to find people who could do it, they looked to the sowers, they were called that they already employed her. of course, on the brown girdle side i even though it was like 2 sides of the same warehouse. and then these women were the ones who put the seats together and actually figured it out. and there were no drawings all of the suits. there was no kind of schematic

drawing that told you how to put to put it together. the knowledge was really only in the fingertips of these women. nicholas says that during the research for his book and my grandfather's name came that the people from does that it doesn't come up. is it something that was it? was it mat romanovs case? something that, that seem to be very influential. yeah. oh, because in fact the particular role that my reading of all these documents is, is that there to people kind of people in any organization. there are the people who for the roles and other people who get things done and allow for rules to be mostly followed. and i think that your grandfather's seems to me to be definitely in the latter camp. i mean, he was in this, the conflict and the egos around this were, i mean, planetary scale you had with most public geopolitical event of the late 1960, you had all of national prestige on her, on the line. nobody want to be the person to screw it, are you sorry?

my impression is that he was an absolute pain in the ass when he needed to be. and that he was a charming when he needed to be. and as they say in, in these situations who need these ring master fingers who are able to, to channel and shepherd, the energies of organizations to produce productive results. and, and your grandfather definitely seems like one of the most important ones when it came to all the things which actually kept astral to life. which in many ways were the most important things. well, many of my heroes from the apollo program and no longer with us. so finding people he can tell me what it was like to design the scene. man, war to walk on the moon isn't easy. but for my, i'll see engineer john shibel still has an extraordinarily bright mind and a passion for engineering. he's kept a mandate that he liberated from. i'll see when he retired. and it's amazing. come face to face with such an iconic object. is exactly what you guys design homes. yes

. by neil armstrong. and basil jan. yeah, she walked on the me. this is the apollo blue in your lou. listen and various pictures on the footprint on the moon. when it came to the big moments in apollo, i'm talking about obviously the moon landing when, when everyone, when i guess that was the real test wasn't at the e v a and apollo 11 of the suit that you guys had designed every one of our employees was in the plante and washed the landing on a television every every person, every person that worked there was midnight and we were all in the plan. after the landing, i remember is kind of sentimental for me. but after the lanny law over at his private 2 o'clock in the morning or how it looked up with their

lives. so and that was like i said, that was a motion to that. and it was proof that we did it right. or john hasn't seen his school. my boss, hannah ream, sits there space to day. so i've taken the opportunity to get them together. when i me high match took lot, his experiences, working on the apollo program. how did you feel when that moment came? when buzz neal stepped out of the spacecraft, we saw what this was. i mean this is the world looking at all i all see suit and the thing that that dead was difficult. is it the power love? it was the systems test pursued had good run through door building, testing here at our,

in our laboratories. we were confident of the store building. the systems test was apollo logan and the only problem it was real and it was on the moon and i just couldn't wait for it to get over. it all worked out pretty good except they got a hit on the timeline and was all on band daredevil as he is. he decides to reinvent some more stuff and he's jumping around out there and i'm thinking get at it in back inside. i mean, this is over glaring a success and get back in that, let me know and he's out there doing some more stuff. he was just caught up in a moment. but it all, it all worked out. ok. form a crew systems engine is joe mcmann and larry bell vividly remember what it was like to walk along side grampa his body. he might discover, even of him from an old b. b. c documentary about nasa. coupled with joe and laurie story,

have you my 1st insight into what from power light to have around the office? matthew red, no space for that space to design, and we have to define how he's going outside in the event that the man were to go outside on a completely self contained sort of a life support system. then some changes would have to be made. you have to have a pack on his back would have to have a pack on his back on the pack would have to be contained devices, chemicals for instance. tell me what it was like to work with matt retinal sky because my grandpa was he met? yeah, tell me about him. he was a character and we start there really interesting. we sometimes referred to me as the mad rush and this because he get upset. somebody didn't do what he want in or do it, as well as telling you early in this piece, a 4 by 4 woodland on his desk and a big survival machete. he got upset with me to start chopping on that block people downstairs calling us. would you knock it off, man? i can't hear down. i had an experience in the same gemini program when

the crewman complained that their communication system would slide around and in the helm that they couldn't get to it adjusted. and i was having a meeting in the office about how we can fix that and he walks in as to what you need. i don't know what the number was, a p, j 7. what british communications cap. he knew about these british flying camps because he'd been over there in the war and had flown with him and knew what it was . we took it apart and uses a pattern to make what was referred to later. as the snippy cap could add the brown, the years white spandex down the middle of that can look like a snoopy dog from the cartoon, and referred to the pilot program. it's a snoopy cat. but he was want to get that in and started tell us that what we needed. tell me what it was like at the time, then to be working and kristin's. what was grandpa like? when matt walked into a room, he totally filled it. he was single minded, he was totally focused, and anybody around, no matter who you worked for by the organization chart. if matt had

a job or do you work for math and one thing about him, he could break into the most be a terrific smile. he had the greatest smile i ever saw it was, it was like the sun coming out from behind. the cloud was humbly on. he had changed from this photo, totally focused driven guy on somewhat somewhat striking. and his voice would soften and he had a smile. so he was, it was a, a volatile guy. he was a genius. it was a james. and he, i don't think his contributions will ever be fully appreciated. the styles of the space race, of course, with the asking the american public records, he followed every detail that i feel amorous lifestyles. but the glare of the media spotlight of an obscure the dangers of traveling into space and crucial partnership between the men who built the seats and the ones he wore them asked, you know, if jim lovell is better than anybody was, it was like to trust the crew systems team with his life,

or what he shows me around next, submission of artifacts from his 3 flights into space. he tells me how he and his crew port, his most famous missions, apollo 13 back from the brink of disaster of lawn. thanks and parts to the ingenuity of the nasa engineers on the ground, one of our big graces was the fact that all of their 3 people had to live in the lunar module. because the command module was dead in the lunar module. environmental system had only a couple of canisters to remove the carbon dioxide because the lamazzo was designed only to be powered up once we're in lunar orbit. and it was designed to last only 2 days. i for only 2 people. and of course, when they explosion occurred, there was least a 4 day flight ah ad. there were 3 people and casually the canisters to remove the carbon dioxide we're becoming saturated. and therefore we had to go into the dead

command module and get the canisters so that environmental system to try to see if we could recall jury rig those canisters to work in the little module system. unfortunately, the casters of the command module were square. the ones that were using the little modul war route and we did it with duck table, a piece of plastic cardboard cover from a flight manual animal soc. and that's how we got that thing in to live our battle system, all the little modules so that i will remove the carbon dioxide, which is a perfect example of the ingenuity of the over people of crew systems is coo systems had done that. people working together to figure out how that had to be done. ready there were only 8 human beings still alive who sat fish on the me. so as an incredible privilege to get to meet one of them,

charlie g, lunar module pilots, apollo 16. he spent more than 20 hours on the lunar surface. with his fellow astronaut john young, put us in your, in your boots as it were, when you walk on the man, can you feel, for example, the texture of the surface they walk you on can you feel any he or do you really feel very isolated? well, once she got outside, you couldn't feel this fixture. in fact, you, i don't even recall my, my, me seeking in. but when you turned around, you saw your footprint you left around our landing site. probably an inch, maybe 2 inches depression. but with the moon boot on an a suit boot, you could not feel that texture was not like walking on the beach in barefooted. the worry in the space suit on the, on the moon is heat stroke,

body heat. and you have to illuminate that body heat through our liquid cool garment that we had. and that worked really good. and so uh, we had minimum cooling, intermediate cooling and maximum coolie when you were riding in the rover. intermediate cooling was to calling a glitch like freezing in the soup. so you had to turn back to a minimum. but when you got out and you started working, you had to go back to the medium setting. i felt secure, i never had a fearful slap except once when i fell over backwards towards the end of our stay on the moon. and we were excited, we'd done a good job and accomplished everything except for one experiment. and so john and i were going to do the moon olympics in broad jump in the hydra. so john said, well, we're running behind houston and we're going away. we're gonna redo the moon

olympic so he starts to bounce. and so i start to bounce and then and then i gave a big jump. and when i did unfortunately, i straightened out in my center of gravity, went backwards and i were a nuclear seen real to be just going over back house like that. it's very scary because if i land the backpack brakes, i done for i got a barish goes a tv camera was pointed right at me. and so they'd seen this stupid hide, you know, they were very upset by the way. so that ended the moon olympics. i said no more that get back in gas. and so john park to rover. i climbed ahead and that was the end of our stay being one of i think just a dozen people to ever have a chance. ready to stand on the moon and, and look at the earth. did that change your perspective of life on earth where we stood on the moon? the earth was directly overhead. and my 1st thought,

when we 1st got dear was, we're a long way from home. there. if you just out there and it's you covered over with your hand. those views of earth hung up in the blackness, the space, you know, borders, no countries, no continents. and then you do have some time to reflect well, the engine is designing the space suit may be didn't realize was that they were also crazy. a cultural icon to day. the image of the apollo astronauts has become instantly recognizable the wild over like me, ortho nasa consultant and space flight historian amy title wasn't even born yet during the polar project, but she's captured a 21st century audience. detention with her pa, youtube videos would exclude aspects of what she calls the vintage space sat that we're looking at today on vintage space. i want to get amy's take away space

systems such a big part of the public imagination. and why the space suit was found everywhere from advertising to even fancy drax can will to take your own to frontier that you hand in boy that you may. i did. yeah, i think i'm gonna address caroline up in from fun baby here with me. her graham has had a massive impact on modern culture, and it is exactly that sort of the prevalence of the image of the astronaut e. c everywhere affiliated with anything, it's sort of become the one thing like everyone recognizes an answer in a big, bulky space. you usually the apollo era white one and everyone recognizes a rocket, but somehow those 2, those 2 things and really mainly the suit because it's that human. like we, we see we can see ourselves in a c, right?

you can put, you can put that on, you go to be extra but what i want to do now is get inside a real space, eat and feel for myself what it's actually like. as an independent company in new york. what final frontier design? it's run by american ted, southern and his russian colleague, nickel i'm, we see that creating a suit that she has some technology with the current russians saved the suckle seats, which is you last notes travelling to the international space station. canadian national. come on to chris hatfield, will the so called see during his file ship into space where he became famous for his city on board, the international space station to sleep. mm. you say he shows me around a circle say like the one he flew in. well, i'm a bit nervous about being completely enclosed inside a precious seat. so i want to know from his perspective, what a space suit is actually like to where the russian suit is varies very elegantly

simple, very purpose designed. the suit that i wore on the shuttle much more robust because you have to actually be able to jump out and come down under a parachute in it. so it has to be a little more rugged suit than, than the, than the russian suit. but they both do their job well, i wouldn't where either of them recreation laser, they are uncomfortable, hot rubber. no non compliant, garments to work. so it's not too much difference say to putting on a big heavy, wet suit and a scuba tank and a snorkel and fins and mask, you know, that's an ungainly thing to be wearing and you wouldn't want to be wearing and walking around right here. but once you go into the water, it feels different but natural, and it allows you to spend an hour under water that otherwise would be completely denied you. so there's sort of that girding your loins feeling of putting all this stuff on. so that then you can go do battle with something that otherwise would,

would defeat you at last. the time has come to try out the final frontier receives this is one of the key moment in this journey for me and understanding what it feels like. you can look at it, i can look at it, lay down in the table, space you as an tops and material as many times as you like. but when you are in it, you, your body is covered once and visor in front of you. i think that is over the face, these experience and the moment when you can understand what people like my grandfather were working for creating i feel like a little kid. i'm like like chris hatfield ah me.

oh, i came to me through a series of physical challenges, some of which i probably struggled with at the best of times. i'm beginning to understand the engineering challenge involved in making a suit of fabric, but to naples, a person to walk on the moon, especially given the technology of the 1960 looking back at everything that was required to make me state nicholas, marcia was right when he said that grandpa was a ring master, all the different engineering ngo's that pulled themselves into that effort. it takes a big personality to be able to thrive in that environment. i think he sounds like a bit of a mentalist sometimes. and i like that because it makes me feel a bit crap that you know, that makes me feel close to him. realizing that actually he could be kind of pay him. yeah. and he was a bit wait, sometimes i'm here. cool. people in the middle,

the nights because he was really excited and wants to quit right now. and i love that because that's sort of the person i am a bit as well. and that's what makes me feel closer to him. not realizing that i want someone to tell me that he was actually really irritating. sometimes because i'm really irritating sometimes. and that makes me feel close to him. much right, not the daughter, mountie. barbara, still lives in houston, texas. it's a light on as part of the reset to this film and she's been looking to old paperwork and photographs from that time. and i grandpa died when he was 68 years old. just 3 years after i was born in the u. k. he only saw me twice and wanted to visit again. but his how finally failed him. i wish i could have interviewed him to this film. what you don't know is that your effort to do this, your effort, caroline, to find out about your grandfather is exactly the way

matt would act and would hope and dream that you would act. because we spoke a lot the weeks before he died and he knew that he was not well, and he was 68 and he felt his time was coming. he really wanted a heart transplant but couldn't qualify. and so he was planning a trip with me to see you when he died. and your actions in learning about him is just what he'd want. that was his. that was his great love and you're the youngest. and he really wanted you to know about it. he really wanted to visit you as i come close to the end of my journey of discovery about grandpa in the space

suit. of course, a new understanding and respect the work of nasa and all those who played that part in putting man on the moon. for me and my family, we have one ensuring personal legacy to remember grandpa by an icon of the 20th century. this is the apollo suit. this is pretty much the real deal. i mean, this is the real deal. this is walks. my grandfather and his colleagues designed what i'll see dover maids and what the crew own apollo war to walk on the moon. in many ways, this was graham paused, laced, famous legacy. this was his child. and the man who wore this came back to us safely. and that was because of nasa cru systems. i'll see, dover, and grandpa form on

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