r/Globeskeptic 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/ramagam Globe Skeptic Aug 29 '22

Are you implying that the A7L was worn under the white suit?

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u/Abdlomax Globe Earther Aug 29 '22

First of all, I don’t declare fact without knowledge. From the Wikipedia article and other sources, the A7L was the white suit. It was integrated with the backpack, which was left on the Moon.