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matthew reading of the scheme was well known for working with the contract is he competed for the chance to design and build the new apollo space suits. one company, i'll see. dover went to great lengths with the publicity stunt that showed their suit playing american football and winning the nasa contract by a touchdown. nicholas html 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 comparatively small company, best known for making women's underwear under the brand name, play text. even at the time, people in nasa called plaintext, i'll say partially as a, as a cult. like we could call someone by their nickname, partly as a kind of like, can you believe we're dealing with plato care? despite the company's lack of experience making protective clothing that flexible and highly 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 appalling space seats the cause. the suit ended up being put together out of $21.00 layers of fabric. a not like 21 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 2643 inch torrance, without any pins because the pins high puncture the pressure layer of this was a kind of a or kelly and nor olympic feet of sewing. and to find people who could do it, they looked to the sowers that recalled that they already employed her. of course, on brown girdle side, i even, i was like 2 sides of the same warehouse. and then these women who are the ones who put the seats together and actually figured it out and there were no drawings all the students. there was no kind of schematic drawing that told you how to put to

put it together. the, 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 often the people from does that does not come up. is it something that was it? was it not? right? not 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 are 2 people kind of people in any organization. there are the people who follow the rules and there are 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 on. my impression is that

here is 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 astronauts alive. 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 a seat, man, roar 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 to come face to face with such an iconic object. is exactly what you guys design manager by

neil armstrong. and basil jan. yes, she woke on the me. this is the apollo booth. and now you're more lou. this and, and various pictures on the footprint on the moon. when it came to the big moments in a paula, 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. in a paula 11 of the suit that you guys designed, every one of our employees was in the plant and wash the landing on the television every every person, every person that worked there was midnight. and we were all in the plan for an hour after the landing i remember is kind of sentimental for me, but after the lanny and it was all over and it's probably 2 o'clock in the morning or how looked up at them their lives. so. and that

was like i said, that was an emotional but and it was proof that we did it right. or john has seen his former boss, hannah ream, sit there space today. so i've taken the opportunity to get them together. when i me high match, took lot, his experiences wacky 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 i l. c. suit and the thing that, that, that was difficult is it, the power level was the systems test to suit had been run through door building testing here at our and in our laboratories,

we were canceled out of the store building those systems test was apollo loven, emily prom what 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 buzz all on banner daredevil as he is. he decides reinvent some more stuff and he's jumping around outdoor and i'm thinking get, getting back to inside. i mean, this is over glaring a success and get back and let the lamb, you know, he's out there doing some more stuff. he was just caught up in the moment, but it all, it all worked out. ok. phone the crew systems engineers, joe mcmann, and larry bow vividly remember what it was like to welcome side grampa his body, my discovery, even. i kept him from an old b, b c documentary about nasa, coupled with joe and laurie stories have,

gives him my 1st insight into what grandpa is like to have around the office. matthew read no screen for that space suit 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, quote of alexa voice than 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 ah, devices, chemicals written to tell me what it was like to work we had met right now ski. my grandpa was he, i met, yeah. tell me about him and he was a character. and let me start there. really interesting. we sometimes referred to me as the mad rush and this because he'd get all upset. so somebody didn't do what he wanted or do it as well. i was telling you earlier this piece a 4 by 4 woodland on his desk and a big survival machete. 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

with the crewman complained that their communication system would slide around and in the helmet they couldn't get to it to just it. and i was having a meeting in the office but how we can fix it. and he walks in as to which annisa, i don't know what the number was like, a p, j 7. what a british communications cap he knew about these british flying calves, because he'd been over there in the war and had flown with him and knew what it was . we took it apart, uses a pattern to make what was referred to later as the snoopy cap could head, the brown, the earth, white spandex, down the middle. so kind of look like a snoopy dog from the cartoon, and referred to an apollo programs, a snoopy cat. but he was want to got that in started tell us at 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 just, it was like the sun coming up behind. the cloud was humbly who 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, he was a, a volatile guy. he was, he was a genius. it was a james and he, i don't think his contributions will ever be fully appreciated. this started a space race, of course, with the asking the american public correct. this he followed every detail that i feel amorous lifestyle, but the glare of the media spotlight of an obscure the dangers of traveling in the space. and the crucial partnership between the men who built the seats and the ones he wore them asked, you know, it's 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 bought his most famous missions. apollo 13 back on the brink of disaster have won. thanks and paused. the ingenuity of the nasa engine is on the ground. one of our big graces was the fact that all of their 3 people had a live in the lunar module. cuz 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 get me 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 spoke that occurred, there was least a 4 day flight ah ad. there were 3 people at castle, clearly the canisters to remove the carbon dioxide were 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 used to deliver modul war route and we did it with duct tape on 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. i'll the little module so that i will remove the carbon dioxide, which is a perfect example of the ingenuity of the over people of crew systems. because co systems had done that. people working together to figure out how that had to be done. there were only 8 human being still alive who set fish on the me says an incredible privilege to get to meet one of them. charlie g

luna. much of 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 fits 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 heat or do you really feel very isolated? well, once she got outside, you couldn't feel this fixture. in fact, you and only mery, call me my, me seeking in. but when you turned around, you saw your footprints 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 uh,

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 we had minimum cooling, intermediate cooling, and maximum cooling when you were riding in the rover. intermediate cooling was to calling. it was like freezing in the soup. so you had to turn back to 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 fell out except once and 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, and then the broad job in the hygiene. so john said, well, we're running behind houston and we're going away. we're gonna do 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 barracks like it's very scary because if i land the backpack brakes have done for i got a barish goes a tv camera was pointed right at me and so they'd seen this stupid high job. 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, the rover, i climbed in and that was an our stay being one of them. i think just a dozen people ever have the chance. ready to stand on the man and, and the copyright 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 in those views of earth, hung up in the blackness, the space for no 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 creating a cultural icon. today, the image of the apollo astronauts has become instantly recognizable the wild over like me, author 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, 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 this place is found everywhere, from advertising to even fancy drac 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 funds. basically, a peer with the space program 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 could 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 russian 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 the, than the russian suit. but they both do their job well, i wouldn't where either of them recreational is there. 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 seats. this is one of the key moment in this journey for me and understanding what it feels like. you can look at it or you can look at it, lay down the table space you and thompson material as many times as you like. but when you're in it you, your body is covered once i'm desert 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 enable the 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 goes that port 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 with actually he could be kind of pay

him. yeah. and he was a bit wait, sometimes he call 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 closer to him. my rad knocked his daughter, mountie. barbara still lived in houston, texas the daylight on as part of the research 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 house 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 and the space

state. 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. see it? this is pretty much the real deal. i mean, this is the re deal. this is what my grandfather and his colleagues designs. what i'll see dover mathes and what the crew of apollo war to walk on the moon. in many ways, this was grandpa most famous legacy. this was his trial. and the man who wore this came back to us safely. and that was because of nasa cru systems aisle seat over. and grandpa form around on

a right of passage present to the generation. my cousin was laying down there i'm to was claiming she was helpless. the woman or after indoors as go through cycle of pain, for what fact my naive meets the women affected by f g m, and those reshaping perception, do you think people will abandon the sir eventually bentonville, take al jazeera correspond the country ah ah, look forward to brighter skies,

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