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Gemini 9 configured extravehicular spacesuit assembly

Description: Test subject Fred Spross, Crew Systems Division, wears the Gemini 9 configured extravehicular spacesuit assembly. The legs are covered with Chromel R, which is a cloth woven from stainless steel fibers, used to protect the astronaut and suit from the hot exhaust thrust of the Astronaut Maneuvering Unit.

 

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Credit: NASA

Image Number: S66-31019

Date: May 1966

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