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Fashioning Apollo

by Nicholas de Monchaux

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      New: New When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface inJuly of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: twenty-one layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresseswhose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles. This book is the story of thatspacesuit. It is a story of the Playtex Corporation's triumph over themilitary-industrial complex--a victory of elegant softness over engineered hardness, of adaptation over cybernetics. Playtex's spacesuit went up against hard armor-likespacesuits designed by military contractors and favored by NASA's engineers. It wasonly when those attempts failed--when traditional engineering firms could notintegrate the body into mission requirements--that Playtex, with its intimateexpertise, got the job. In Spacesuit, Nicholas de Monchaux tells the story of thetwenty-one-layer spacesuit in twenty-one chapters addressing twenty-one topicsrelevant to the suit, the body, and the technology of the twentieth century. Hetouches, among other things, on eighteenth-century androids, Christian Dior's NewLook, Atlas missiles, cybernetics and cyborgs, latex, JFK's carefully cultivatedimage, the CBS lunar broadcast soundstage, NASA's Mission Control, and theapplications of Apollo-style engineering to city planning. The twenty-one-layerspacesuit, de Monchaux argues, offers an object lesson. It tells us about redundancyand interdependence and about the distinctions between natural and man-madecomplexity; it teaches us to know the virtues of adaptation and to see the future asa set of possibilities rather than a scripted scenario. How the twenty-one-layerApollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph of intimacy over engineering.
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      How the twenty-one-layerApollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph of intimacy over engineering.

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      • Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
      • Language: English
      • ISBN-10: 026201520X
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      • ISBN-13: 9780262015202
      • Publication Date: Mar. 18th, 2011
      • Dimensions: 7.12 x 9.20 x 1.01 inches
      • Shipping Weight: 2.52 lbs
      • Categories: Engineering History Design History & Design Criticism

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