Today I found out Playtex the bra company made the Apollo space suits

[HenryDorsetCase]

The interesting thing about that is the Apollo astronauts used Omega Speedmaster Calibre 361 watches. "The only watch worn on the moon". Mechanical. Perspex dial. Hand wind.

They still make them. It got Jim Lovell and co out of the shit in Apollo 13. That thing with timing the thruster burns? Yeah. That was real. Measuring the speed using the tachymetre outer bezel. Also real.

Next time you velcro yourself into your latex catsuit? Thank the space programme.

[F5 Dave]

http://www.wired.com/2011/02/pl_spacesuits_showdown/

Which I found to be very interesting.

I thought I would share. I am a fan of hard science and manned spaceflight.

Well they only had to withstand the filming sessions of the Arizona desert at nighttime.

(Didn't do enough research to find out where they were supposedly staged, i dont want that on my search history, but SS or FC will be along soon and I thought I'd do them a solid by standing in. -Actually I was typing that on the bog doing a solid. Spookey).

[Tazz]

The interesting thing about that is the Apollo astronauts used Omega Speedmaster Calibre 361 watches. "The only watch worn on the moon". Mechanical. Perspex dial. Hand wind.

They still make them. It got Jim Lovell and co out of the shit in Apollo 13. That thing with timing the thruster burns? Yeah. That was real. Measuring the speed using the tachymetre outer bezel. Also real.

Next time you velcro yourself into your latex catsuit? Thank the space programme.

Was a personal watch and not N.A.S.A issued too iirc