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Scott Henderson, Apollo Space Suits: Shenanigans and Shortcomings II

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Apollo Investigation Initial research by Scott Henderson with additional new findings   The gloves are off During the 50th anniversary 2019 media flurry, a cutaway drawing of the layers comprising Armstrong’s EVA suit was published in the National Geographic July 2019 issue. The illustration and the language used to describe this suit did not disabuse the reader of the notion that it was an ‘all-in-one’. And the cutaway image of the Apollo 11 EVA suit showed the ‘integrated pressure glove’ reaching part of the way up the forearm. All well, but not…

Scott Henderson, Apollo Space Suits: Shenanigans and Shortcomings I

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Apollo Investigation Initial research by Scott Henderson with additional new findings   Figure 1. Pressure garment, 1932 Introduction Joining the Dots. Research strongly indicates that the space suits worn for the Apollo photographs and TV coverage from the Moon were simply costumes designed for simulation and photography. Meticulously detailed studies of the evidence reveals that Armstrong and Aldrin’s suits, as worn in the Apollo 11 photographs, were copies of the Apollo space suits designated for an EVA on the lunar surface. It is asserted that the details within these photographs demonstrate that these ‘accessorized…