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Gemini 9
Gemini 9 configured extravehicular spacesuit assembly

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.



Catalog Date: 05 January 1966
Film Type: 4x5
NASA image: S66-31019


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