John Williams shows you the 3D Apollo Spacesuits created in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission to the Moon. Fifty fiberglass replicas were made of Neil Armstrong's spacesuit. John shows you one on display at the Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia.
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50 years after the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon, the Smithsonian celebrates by releasing the results of a multi-year conservation effort of Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit. The effort to protect and display Armstrong’s suit also included sharing it with a wider audience. The National Air and Space Museum and the Smithsonian’s Digitization Program Office 3D scanned the suit, helmet, and gloves.

These Extra-Vehicular (EV) gloves were made for and worn by astronaut Neil Armstrong, Commander of the Apollo 11 mission in July, 1969.
The gloves were constructed of an outer shell of Chromel-R fabric with thermal insulation to provide protection while handling extremely hot or cold objects. The blue fingertips were made of silicone rubber to provide sensitivity. The inner glove was of a rubber/neoprene compound, into which the restraint system was integrated, and they attached to the spacesuit using the same mechanism as the intra-vehicular gloves.
Transferred to the National Air and Space Museum from NASA in 1971.

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This spacesuit was worn by astronaut Neil Armstrong, Commander of the Apollo 11 mission, which landed the first man on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

The lunar spacesuits were designed to provide a life sustaining environment for the astronaut during periods of extra vehicular activity or during unpressurized spacecraft operation. They permitted maximum mobility and were designed to be worn with relative comfort for up to 115 hours in conjunction with the liquid cooling garment. If necessary, they were also capable of being worn for 14 days in an unpressurized mode.

The spacesuit has the designation A-7L, and was constructed in the Extra-vehicular or EV configuration.

NASA transferred the spacesuit to the National Air and Space Museum in 1971.

Smithsonian Magazine
Neil Armstrong’s Restored Spacesuit Put Back on Display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum
The spacesuit, which Armstrong wore when he walked on the moon during Apollo 11, is available for public viewing and as a 3-D model online

It’s difficult to think of a garment that carries more historical significance than Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit, still dusted with grains from the lunar surface. Perhaps King Henry VIII’s suit of armor, one of Napoleon’s uniforms, or Queen Victoria’s mourning dress could compare in terms of priceless clothing, but Armstrong’s spacesuit carries a special singularity that no other suit could claim: the first boots to step on the moon, and the gear that kept Armstrong alive in the inhospitable lunar environment.

Armstrong’s suit was displayed for about 30 years at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum before it was taken down in 2006 because curators were concerned about deterioration. After 13 years of restoration work, the spacesuit is back on display at the museum, unveiled today at an event on the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11.

“The complexity of the suit ensured it could support human life in the harshest of environments: extreme heat and cold, radiation, micrometeorites and the threat of cuts from sharp rocks all had to be taken into consideration,” said Ellen Stofan, the museum's director, at the event. “As our curators note, these spacesuits were actually single-person spacecraft, but while they were designed to endure the punishment of a lunar walk, they weren’t designed to last half a century on display.”

The conservation of the spacesuit, which Armstrong wore when he walked on the moon for the first time on July 20, 1969, was made possible by a Kickstarter campaign that raised more than $500,000 from 9,000 people. To share the suit with the public, it will be on display near the 1903 Wright Flyer in the Air and Space Museum before moving to its permanent home in a new “Destination Moon” exhibition to open in the next few years. The suit has also been digitized, and a 3-D model is available to the public online. The Smithsonian will also send 15 life-size statues of the Armstrong spacesuit to baseball parks around the country as part of the Apollo at the Park project.

Conserving the first suit to be worn on the moon involved creating a detailed map with X-rays, CT scanning and UV photography, as well as extensive research into the suit’s manufacture and

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