Okay – to address some upcoming questions – the A7L Apollo lunar suit had an internal restraint layer that stopped the suit from ballooning out; articulation was at all the joints but it was still pretty stiff. You can see an image of the internal layer [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo/Skylab_spacesuit).
The outer section, the white part we see, is the TMG – the Thermal Micrometeoroid Garment. It had about 15 layers of thermal and ripstop protection – mylar, kevlar, reinforced kapton and so on. It was designed both to reflect sunlight and protect the wearer from the possibility of micrometeoroids – which while massed a gram or less, was also traveling up to 30,000mph. These would hit like a very hard mosquito.
So the outer layer of the suit wasn’t just some cotton blend mix – it was incredibly tough. Even so, lunar soil is insanely abrasive and the last few J-series missions (15, 16 and 17) had multiple EVAs where suit integrity started to become an issue.
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Its wild to think that at some point we had people on the moon. We need bigger dreams back.
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The aliens on the moon are just watching from a far…. “look at these idiots”
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Fake AF
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It’s tough walking on the studio floor with all the sand on it.
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looks sus
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Let’s set up these cameras and then call our president on a landline… fake history
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Okay – to address some upcoming questions – the A7L Apollo lunar suit had an internal restraint layer that stopped the suit from ballooning out; articulation was at all the joints but it was still pretty stiff. You can see an image of the internal layer [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo/Skylab_spacesuit).
The outer section, the white part we see, is the TMG – the Thermal Micrometeoroid Garment. It had about 15 layers of thermal and ripstop protection – mylar, kevlar, reinforced kapton and so on. It was designed both to reflect sunlight and protect the wearer from the possibility of micrometeoroids – which while massed a gram or less, was also traveling up to 30,000mph. These would hit like a very hard mosquito.
So the outer layer of the suit wasn’t just some cotton blend mix – it was incredibly tough. Even so, lunar soil is insanely abrasive and the last few J-series missions (15, 16 and 17) had multiple EVAs where suit integrity started to become an issue.
Its wild to think that at some point we had people on the moon. We need bigger dreams back.
The aliens on the moon are just watching from a far…. “look at these idiots”
Fake AF
It’s tough walking on the studio floor with all the sand on it.
looks sus
Let’s set up these cameras and then call our president on a landline… fake history