A Suit For The First Man on the Moon (1961)

The August 6 , 1961 Post - Standard Sunday magazine ( Syracuse , NY ) turn tail a inadequate spell about an Experimental Engineering class at UCLA that was try out / play with a “ synodic month man ’s suit . ” Designed by Allyn B. Hazard , the suit of clothes also appeared on the covering fire of Life magazine’sApril 27 , 1962 publication . The entire two - page spread from the Post - Standard can be look at below .

“ You ’re going to shoot down on the moon . You need a suit that will protect you against all the dangers you ’ll bleed into . you could jump by figuring out what they are . ”

That ’s the grant Professor John Lyman handed his class in Experimental Engineering at U.C.LA . Along with it he gave them a rough theoretical account of a moon man ’s suit project by California applied scientist Allyn B. Hazard . The course of instruction analyse it , wore it , and attempt to make it into a hardheaded safeguard for our first lunar month military personnel . They pin - steer six major problem the suit of clothes must solve :

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respiration : No air on the lunation , so the suit must pack oxygen for at least 10 days .

red-hot - dusty : The moonshine switches from a stewing 215 grade F. in the daytime to 250 below at dark . Suit must be power - heated and cooled , heavily insulated .

Radiation : A phenomenon anticipate “ solar flair ” intermittently shower the synodic month with very intense radiation . Suit must completely harbor wearer .

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Vacuum effect : Suit must prevent fateful red ink of moisture due to moon ’s near - vacuity atmosphere .

Mobility : Moon ’s surface is thought to be covered with debris that may be 20 foot slurred in place . Also , the atmospherical pressure inside the suit and absence of pressure outdoors will cause moon man ’s arms to aviate up like Jimmy Durante ’s and stick there .

Chow : Moon man must carry ration inside suit .

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you could see why the suit does n’t exactly have Ivy League cut . Our scientists have dub President Kennedy ’s proposed $ 40 billion man - to - the - lunar month undertaking “ Apollo . ” Apollo should action !

— Joseph Gies

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