![]() ![]() There was no NASA effort to think about how do you celebrate this moment of landing on the moon, not as a technical achievement but as a human achievement?. ![]() The really interesting thing is that it didn't even come up until just a few weeks before Armstrong and Aldrin took off. On the American flag that was planted on the lunar surface And then they were able to come up with this material, this heat shield epoxy, but then they had to conceive of a way to get it onto the back of the capsule. So NASA and the scientists and engineers needed to come up with, literally, an all new substance to protect the capsule from heat that was at the surface of the sun. The command module is coming back through the atmosphere, it enters the atmosphere at 25,000 miles an hour. It just reminded me that every one of these missions was sort of pioneering, and NASA was pushing the limits every single time until you sort of get to the later missions. so nervous that Buzz Aldrin was going to do something that was going to cause the spacesuits to fail, and there's the TV camera and there's 600 million people around the world watching and Buzz Aldrin is going to crack open his spacesuit somehow and die. with a group of spacesuit people in case something went wrong. started racing from one side of the landing site to the other, bunny hopping, doing sort of NFL running back cuts this way and that way, and Sonny Reihm, who is in charge of spacesuits, was in mission control in Houston. decided to see what the limits of his ability to gallivant around on the moon were - and perhaps what the limit of his spacesuit was. ![]() And there's video of Sonny Reihm and a couple of his colleagues talking about how nervous they were, because Buzz Aldrin, who had the slightly bigger personality of the two first lunar explorers. The spacesuits were the work of Playtex, the Cross Your Heart Bra people, which in and of itself is a remarkable moment in the life of NASA, that they turned to Playtex to build spacesuits. There's video of a man named Sonny Reihm who was in charge of creating the spacesuits. ![]()
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