Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ubvax!ames!mike
From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle fashions
Message-ID: <14643@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 10 Sep 88 00:20:52 GMT
References: <1256@ncspm.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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In article <1256@ncspm.ncsu.edu> jay@ncspm.ncsu.EDU (Jay C. Smith) writes:
>
>On the first four shuttle flights orange pressure suits were worn.  While
>training for STS-26 I noticed the crew wearing more "NASA-looking" blue
>pressure suits. . . .

I'm sorry but I can't add anything to this mystery, but it did remind
me of another interesting piece of trivia,this time regarding spacesuits.

I'm sure you are all familiar with the "offical" looking space suits from
Mercury. My, we were all thrilled to see our astronauts dressed up in those
neat >>>silver<<< spacesuits, just like Buck Rogers, et al. Well, the main
reason why they were silver (instead of the natural green color of those 
kind of pressure suits) was because "silver was in that year". Spacemen
wore silver suits, not green ones.

(there were some minor reasons as well, but the looks of them was the
the most important)


-- 
			   *** mike (starship janitor) smithwick ***
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, or all of the people
 some of the time, but you can't fool Mom".
[disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]