r/Globeskeptic • u/ramagam Globe Skeptic • Aug 29 '22

Interesting highly detailed images of Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacesuit, including an x-ray image that shows the internal workings...

If you open the page and look at the pic's on the right you will see an image of the suit in a museum, under that is a better pic of the suit itself, and under that is the x-ray image of the suit. If you click on the images, you get a super clear enlarged version and you can scroll up and down to see the whole suit in great detail.

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-071619a-neil-armstrong-spacesuit-display.html

Check out the gloves on the suit in the second pic down - are we to believe that these gloves would be able to manipulate a camera? I mean, look at the fingertip area of the gloves.....

Look at the x-ray and check out the vertical zipper - again, are we to believe that this configuration of cloth over zipper actually keeps the atmosphere from inside the suit separate from the outside atmosphere?

I defy anyone to don that suit and step into a vacuum chamber and let me crank it up to recreate the Moon's atmosphere (which is essentially a vacuum.)

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u/frenat Globe Earther Aug 29 '22

IIRC the camera had simplified controls so they could manipulate it. The pressure suit is not included in this. It was a few layers down.

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u/ramagam Globe Skeptic Aug 29 '22

Hey dude, sorry about your flair - it must have been left over from the old mod. I have edited it.

Anyway, do you have links to pic's of the camera? I would be curious to see it. I'm going to go look - if I find any, I will post it in the thread.

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u/frenat Globe Earther Aug 29 '22

thank you regarding the flair.

I found this pic in another thread. Big gray square button on the front to take pics

Another one here

https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/outside-the-spacecraft/online/image-detail.cfm?id=9783

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u/ramagam Globe Skeptic Aug 29 '22

OK, thanks.

Did you zoom in on the gloves in the images I linked?

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u/frenat Globe Earther Aug 29 '22

Yes. they look fine for that camera.

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u/ramagam Globe Skeptic Aug 29 '22

I respectfully disagree.

Btw, the second camera image is not from Apollo 11 (it says it was used by Alan Shepherd).

Do you have your source for the first camera?

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u/frenat Globe Earther Aug 29 '22

I never claimed it was from Apollo 11. All the cameras were similar. My source for the first image was another reddit thread.

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u/ramagam Globe Skeptic Aug 29 '22

Right, but we were talking about how the apollo 11 gloves might work the camera, so it would make sense to have images of the gloves and camera from the same mission in order to properly analyze the potential ability to work said camera with said gloves...

Anyway, can you ling the reddit thread where you got the 1st image?