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us ah, my grandfather, matthew reddened off 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. necklace to more show has extensively researched the development of the stage in his book space suit, fashioning apollo. what he tells me the in the early sixty's, i also over was a comparatively small company, best known for making women's underwear under the brand name plaintext. 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 clear despite the company's lack of

experience making protective clothing that 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 spacing the cause. the suit ended up being put together out of $21.00 layers of fabric. a not like $21.00 layers appropriate 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 on 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 that recalled that they already employed her. of course, on the brown girdle i even, i was like 2 sides of the same warehouse. and then these women were the ones who

put the suits 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 not often because he often does that, it doesn't come up or is it something that was it? was it matt redness? 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. they're the people who for the roles and then 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 the most public geopolitical event of the late 1960 s. you had all of national prestige. amr 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 us shorts alive. which in many ways were the most important things along 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 suit that man wore 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 as i am. yes, by neil armstrong. and basil jin young. she woke on the me. this is the apollo booth in lou. listen 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 and apollo 11 of the suit that you guys had 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. 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 the mean fiddler eve. so, and that was like i said, that was an emotional and it was proof that we did it right. or john has, has seen his former boss, him a ream, suits their space today. so i've taken the opportunity to get them together when i me, how much took, like 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 all i all see suit and then thing that that, that was difficult. is it the power level?

was the systems test, the sued hagrid run through door building, testing here at our, in our laboratories. we were confident of the store building. those systems test was apollo loven, emily prom. 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 barrow daredevil as he is. he decides to reinvent some more stuff and he's jumping around out there and i'm thinking, get it back to inside. i mean, this is over glaring a success and get back and lemme, lemme, you know, and he's out there doing some were stuff he was caught up in the moment, but it all, it all worked out. ok. phone a crew systems engine? is jenny mcmahon 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 was like to have around the office. matthew redna ski with a 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 a life simpler 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. so tell me what it was like to work with. matt. read not ski. my grandpa was he. i met. yeah, tommy, another, not him. 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 upset. somebody didn't do what he wanted or do it as well. i was telling you earlier you had 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 and

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 had the brown, the earth white spandex down the middle, that 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 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 matt, 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 out from behind. a cloud was unbelieving. who changed from this photo? totally focused driven guy. oh, somewhat somewhat strike him. and his voice would soften and he had a smile. so he was a user, 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 in 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, in his craig, for 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. and the little 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 were leave or 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, and 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 from 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 module around, 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, all the little modules so that i would remove the carbon dioxide, which is a perfect example of the ingenuity of the people of crew systems. is qu, systems that done that people working together to figure out how that had to be

done. ready there were only 8 human beings still alive, who set foot on the main. just 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 boots as it were, when you walk in on the main can you feel, for example, the texture of the surface that you're working on? can you feel any heat or do you really feel very isolated? well, when she got outside, you couldn't feel this texture. in fact, you on owning recall my, 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 uh, we had minimum cooling, intermediate cooling and maximum coolie 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 work 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. and then i brought jobs in the hygiene. so john said, well, we're running behind houston and we're gonna, 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 and my center of gravity went backwards and i were a nuclear seen real to be just going over there. cuz like, 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 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 a end of our stay being one of i think just a dozen people ever had the chance. ready to stand on the man 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're 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 there were also creating a cultural icon to day. 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 popular 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 on why 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 her to print it. but you hand in boy that you may, i did. yeah. okay. so i'm gonna dress caroline up in from finance and basically appear with wow, think program has had a massive impact on modern culture. and it is exactly that sort of the prevalence of the image of the astronaut. you see everywhere affiliated with anything, it's sort of become the one thing like everyone recognizes an answer in a big, bulky face. 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 yesterday. 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 is 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 so called satan, which is you by astronauts traveling to the international space station. canadian national commander chris hatfield wool, 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. 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 either. they are uncomfortable, hot rubber. no non compliant, garments to work. so it's not too much different 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, i can look at it, lay down and table, the space you as an tops and material as many times as you like. but when you 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 you creating like a little kid. i'm like like christ hatfield. mm

me . oh i came totally through a series of physical challenges. some of which i'd probably struggle with at the best of time. i'm beginning to understand the engineering challenge involved in making due to the fabric that enables a person to walk on the moon, especially given the technology of the 1960. looking back at everything that was required to make the state nicholas, the more she was right when he said that grandpa was a ring master. all the different engineering goes at 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 closer to him. realizing with actually he could be kind of him. yeah. and he was a bit wait, sometimes he cool people in the midst of the nights because he was really excited and wants to talk right 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 close 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. much right, not his daughter, mountie barbara, still lives in houston, texas, that they live 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 how finally failed him. i wish i could have interviewed him for 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. i've got 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, designs what i'll see dover made 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 a rite of passage present to the generation. my cousin was laying down there until was claiming she was helpless. the woman or after indoors, if go so far i told of paint for what fat manime meets the women affected by f g m. and those re shaping perception. do you think people will abandon the site eventually, but to those take algae 0 correspond the kind of ah

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