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From: jay@ncspm.ncsu.edu (Jay C. Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle fashions
Message-ID: <1262@ncspm.ncsu.edu>
Date: 12 Sep 88 17:48:45 GMT
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Reply-To: jay@ncspm.ncsu.EDU (Jay C. Smith)
Organization: Crop Science Dept., North Carolina State University
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From the original poster:

Hey, I did see blue full- or partial-pressure suits while the STS-26 crew was 
in training.  On CBS' "48 Hours" report on the shuttle program there was one 
clip that showed the shuttle crew walking down a hallway to the simulator for 
a full-blown rehearsal -- and were wearing blue pressure suits, not flight 
suits or coveralls.  I can tell the difference.

On silver being "in" during the Mercury program:  was white in during Gemini
and Apollo, or was that just the natural color of the suits?  Seems like they
would have been orange for the same reason I presume the shuttle ones are --
ease in spotting during rescue operations.  I thought it was funny that they
had to add those red bands to one of the EVA suits for Apollo.  NASA went
against the science fiction creators when they didn't use different color
suits on each astronaut.

-- 
"The duality of man.  The Jungian thing, sir."
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