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| Pat Flannery |
 Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:48 pm |
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Henry Spencer wrote:
Quote: Stranger things have happened; functional hardware isn't really supposed
to go in the trash, but it's been known to get there by accident. A better
question is how the one accidentally-discarded suit just happened to be one
that would *fit* him adequately -- the Mercury suits were custom-made for
their occupants.
At the 1964-1965 world's fair they had a mock-up of a passenger carrying
lifting body on display with astronaut mannequins in it.
After the fair was over it was stored away and forgotten, until sometime
in the late 80's - early 90's when a space club stumbled on it. They
contacted the company who built it for the fair, who said they could
have it. They asked if that meant they could have the astronaut
mannequins also, and the reply was yes to that also.
The astronaut mannequins were wearing real Mercury spacesuits.
They had this story in Air & Space magazine at the time.
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| Henry Spencer |
| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:13 pm |
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In article <12umj5c7sml6c17@corp.supernews.com>,
Pat Flannery <flanner@daktel.com> wrote:
Quote: One really embarrassing example that actually happened was when the body
flap from one of the orbiters ended up in KSC's trash... although the
mistake was caught before it left the premises...
What condition were the tiles on it in by the time they found it?
As I understand it, it was in some sort of support stand, and whoever did
the cleanout had just picked the whole assembly up (forklift??) and hauled
it out to a trash-pickup area, so they lucked out and it was intact.
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