SPACE SUIT by Monchaux, Nicholas De ISBN 0387952950
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How did we end up with a soft suit instead of a hard one? This is the story of the innovative science, design, and management that went into the building of NASA's space suit.
The space suit worn by the astronauts who walked on the moon was a marvel of engineering and design. Seen in photographs from the lunar surface, with its brilliant white fabric and sparkling golden visor, it is an icon of technological daring and prowess. Yet unlike other high-tech artifacts - the products of mechanized, standardized, and centralized mass-production processes - each Apollo space suit was hand-made and custom-fitted to its wearer, and its components were fabricated in small workshops spread far and wide. Author Nicholas de Monchaux describes how those responsible for designing and building the suit were not just engineers and scientists, but seamstresses using needle and thread and pots of glue, and how hundreds of vendors worked, often in competition with one another, in a uniquely flexible, even improvisational, structure that yielded spectacular results in record time. The history of the space suit, de Monchaux argues, reveals how the exigencies of the Space Race created a valuable model for innovative high-technology design and manufacturing.
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[edit] Title
SPACE SUIT
[edit] Author
Monchaux, Nicholas De
[edit] ISBN
0387952950
[edit] Published
30/03/2002
[edit] Publisher
Copernicus Books
[edit] Binding
paperback
[edit] Retail Price
19 (GBP)
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17.1 (GBP)
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