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Gord Green
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2019 1:31 am    Post subject: SPACESUITS 1950 STYLE Reply with quote

While exploring the "rockets from the fifties" I was struck by the popular depiction of the spacesuits of the era!































There must have been a run on fish bowls!

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2019 3:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In the late 1940s through the 1950s spacesuits were depicted this way:



Tom Corbet, Space Cadet had these:





In 1947 this one was tested by the USN:



The 1955 suit supposedly made for Forbidden Planet looked liked this:



But the odds-on favorite was more like this cartoon:



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2019 12:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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NICE work Captain Green and Cadet Eadie! You two started my Saturday morning off with a big space age smile! Cool

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 2:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

An addendum. The 1960s NASA armored spacesuit:



Probably designed in the late 1950s.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 5:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Hot damn, Miss Eadie! That looks great. I'm definitely adding that to my Christmas list! Smile

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That last suit looks like an early Apollo suit without it's covering. It also looks like that is where Mattel got it's inspiration for Major Matt Mason's suit.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 21, 2019 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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David, you are dead right. That design is remarkably similar to Major Matt Mason! Very Happy




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PostPosted: Thu Nov 21, 2019 3:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

HERE'S A FEW MORE !




















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PostPosted: Thu Nov 21, 2019 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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An AMAZING gallery of great pictures! Thanks, Gordo!

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