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From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle fashions
Message-ID: <14814@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 13 Sep 88 15:42:51 GMT
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Reply-To: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
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In article <4897@hplabsb.UUCP> dsmith@hplabsb.UUCP (David Smith) writes:
>
>I suppose they were white for thermal control -- the suits had to have
>cooling systems, after all.  (But where were the radiators, or why were
>they white?)  Red bands were the low-thermal-impact way of telling
>Neil from Buzz.
>-- 
Actually the red bands were the way of telling Al from Pete or Jim from
Fred. They were added to the suits following Apollo 11 because no one could
tell who was who in the pictures. It ended up being moot, since Neil was
the only one with the camera. 

By the way, Spaceflight magazine ran an intresting article
about the Apollo 11 pictures, taking note that there was apparently no
high-quality photo of Armstrong. Finally,someone found one, a single frame
on a lunar panorama with Neil in the LM's shadow, but still it's pretty
poor. The article also mentioned that Armstrong argued against using
color film on the lunar surface, because it had "no scientific value".



-- 
			   *** 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]