I ran across this blog post recently. It’s an overview of all the sorts of space suits out there.
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacesuits.php
I’ve since found an amazing amount of stuff and links, most of which will end up in this post. I think that, if nothing else, this post demonstrates the power of the internet for research. When I was in school finding information on this scale would have been impossible.
Spacesuits have been a part of human imagination since the pulps of the 1920’s. Which is about the same time that real space travel became a possibility and space became a place for new adventures. Going from those fanciful first pictures to something that actually works has been an engineering adventure all it’s own.
Some spacesuits.
Some more.
A video.
A briefing for the Gemini suit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coJkp4LB7hQ
An MIT 1960’s space suit video.
A NASA film from 1966.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2sG-0Vbmzo
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