Adam Savage Meets an Apollo Program Training Spacesuit! 

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She is an absolute paragon of knowledge and professionalism. Have you guys thought about interviewing her or other NASM folks and see how they got into this business and where they learned their stuff? That would be fascinating.

I’m amazed that a fingerprint, just left on the surface of the anodised parts actually starts to “eat” that surface. Leaving actual print shaped pitting visible under a microscope. Fascinating.

This is one of the public employees everyone should thank for their service.

"Is any of this functional?!" YES! (it was at some point..!) We learned so much from the early Apollo missions, not just about space but how we need to prepare to be spaceworthy. Now, we're learning more with Artemis. Can't wait to see a moon base in our lifetime 😄

Hi, Adam! I wanted to clarify the assignments that led to Borman having one of these early Apollo suits for training. It was not used as part of Apollo 1 prime or back-up crew activities, it was for Apollo 2 (AS-205) training. At that time, in the second half of 1966, Grissom-White-Chaffee were the Apollo 1 crew, and their backups were McDivitt, Scott and Schweickart. Apollo 2, on the other hand, was basically a repeat of Apollo 1, flying Block I CSM 014 for two weeks in Earth orbit. Its prime crew were Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham, while their backup crew consisted of Borman (CDR), Stafford (Senior Pilot/CMP) and Collins (Pilot/LMP). In like November of 1966, sometime around there, NASA decided to cancel the Apollo 2 mission, as it would be flying the second and last Block I CSM planned to fly with crew, and that they wouldn't learn a lot from flying a second Block I flight. Assuming Apollo 1 flew as planned, they figured they could move directly into flying the Block II CSMs, starting even before the Saturn V was available, with a mission flying the first Block II and rendezvousing with a separately launched LM, each using a separate Saturn IB. Originally planned to use boosters 205 and 208, that mission was called AS-258 for a while. Then the CSM launch was moved in the planning to AS-207, so it became known as AS-278. The newly freed-up McDivitt crew was assigned to that flight and started studying up on the LM, while Schirra's crew was moved from Apollo 2 prime to Apollo 1 back-up. In the shuffle, Stafford was removed from Borman's crew and given his own crew, with Young and Cernan, while Anders was put on Borman's crew to replace Stafford. And since Anders had not flown in Gemini, he was made the LMP while Collins was "promoted" to CMP (which is why Collins has stated that he was "chosen" to be the guy who doesn't land on the Moon when AS-205 was canceled). In any event, the suit in the video was made and used during the time in mid to late 1966 when Borman was Schirra's backup on the Apollo 2 crew. They didn't spend a whole lot of time in that configuration of crew assignments, and Borman's next job would be as a prime CDR of one of the early Block II flights, in which NASA was still hoping to use the new ILC suits that were lagging in development. So, while it may have been used a few times during check-outs of CM-014 out at Downey, it was really rarely used. And besides, per suit expert Mike Collins, every crewman, prime and backup, got three suits made -- the flight suit, the training suit, and the backup suit. Except for the paperwork the Smithsonian has, there would be no way to tell which of these the suit in the video was. But no matter which of those three it was, it likely didn't get very much use before the Fire happened, and all of the planning that involved that suit got tossed out the window...

"Chaos is everywhere... I'd say chaos is the enemy, but it's like saying the weather is the enemy, it's literally just part of the process." ~ Adam Savage

She's gotta have one of the coolest jobs ever!

I believe that is an Omega Speedmaster Adam is wearing which is just so cool and apropos!

Adam the pen caps you noted are common to the military coats and flight jackets. They are off the shelf pen caps without a clip I’m note sure that the old stick pen caps were not used and when they switched I think part of the reason for them was in case the pen leaked but by the time of Apollo the fisher space pen was common to the astronauts gear these came over from DOD.

Always love when Adams visits the Smithsonian , great info . It would seem that people who collect figures and things with different types of rubbers and plastics and keep them sealed in a box to retain value may be doing more harm then good although i would love to ask her this question , ventilation seems to be important ..

I love watching Adam gush about space engineering, and it's even better when you can tell how much the people he visits with care too :) Does anyone have any recommendations for beginner learning for space engineering?

@Adam Savage’s Tested #adamsavage , I think I may have the "spacers" shown @12:30 or pen lid covers from my step fathers days at Lockheed/skunk works, the shape seen in shot seems very close to what we have here in our collection here.

There is so much knowledge here about such a completely niche area. Amazing discussion

I can see him struggling with all his might not to grab it. This job is very tactile and having a feel for something is just as important as the look.

The pen/pencil pockets on my old surplus N-3B parka have plastic pen caps in them as well.

I’ve been waiting for this video from Adam especially about this suit

It would be great if Adam could visit the David Clark company because I think that they (or maybe Air Lock inc their subsidiary) have an in-house spacesuit museum.

Awesome plane's wow Amazing thanks for sharing sir.

Adam is like that relative that visits and never leaves 🙂 Except that Adam is welcome.

For those interested, the word zhoosh is from Polari. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari

Any time his hands get close to the material, I have anxiety issues... lol

So, I'm curious -- what is that other blue & red suit that we get a couple of glimpses of?

From Nylon suits of the past, to Moonikin of the present.. how far we advanced! The Moonikin they used for Artemis I looks so cool... hope we can get a close up someday.

Adam should check out the British space moon suite which looks like something out of the destiny video game looks amazing but for obvious reasons it never really got the go ahead their are videos on RU-vid showing it off if you look for it

Lisa is awesome

You notice Adam crossing his arms because he knows he has a natural want to touch it, and he's fighting every urge to do so fervently. XD

Wonder where the helmet with the visor protector went🤔

Hey i was wondering if you could make a build of the frostmourne sword from the game world of warcraft. Seem as a cool idea for a future Project.

Have you done prince of persia dagger?

Who made the suit, was it David Clark or ILC?

This being released on the same day as the JoJo Part 6 final batch of episodes can't be a coincidence considering the themes of gravity, time and the space shuttle being in like 3 episodes.

Is Adam wearing a Moonwatch for that video?

if i was rich that would be my snowmobile suit

Its ashame you couldn't get Borman or one of the original engineers involved in making the suits to be in the video too

Hey Adam you should make heath ledger’s joker suit from the mob meeting please!

Adam is taking every advantage to “accidentally” get close to it and “inadvertently” brush up against it.

I learned to fly at the airport where Frank Borman kept his planes. He flew quite aggressively among and between us newbs. He clearly had the skills to fly like that, but what an a-hole... Astronauts are almost all charismatic, cool people - Frank Borman is the clear exception in my mind.

Is there a video of the mannequins being made?!

I mean if you want a pose suggestion; make the moon man Dab.

Adam, If you could go back in time & work on any movie, what would it be & what would your position be?

But what's in the leg pockets????

What happened to Jamie

Baba Booey Baba Booey Baba Booey

Sorry but that is definitvely silver in color.

1ST!

Hey Star City Russia - someone get Adam a cosmonaut suit.

Adam do you sleep

Neat

Why don’t they use inflatable dolls inside instead of hard form structures.