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Gord Green · Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2019 1:31 am Post subject: SPACESUITS 1950 STYLE

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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Eadie · Galactic Ambassador Joined: 14 Dec 2013 Posts: 1670

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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Bud Brewster · Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2019 12:04 pm Post subject:

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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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Eadie · Galactic Ambassador Joined: 14 Dec 2013 Posts: 1670

An addendum. The 1960s NASA armored spacesuit:

Probably designed in the late 1950s.
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 5:46 pm Post subject:

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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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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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Krel · Guest

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.

David.

Bud Brewster · Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2019 10:37 am Post subject:

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

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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Gord Green · Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2019 3:32 pm Post subject:

HERE'S A FEW MORE !

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Bud Brewster · Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2019 8:28 pm Post subject:

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An AMAZING gallery of great pictures! Thanks, Gordo!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)