- Name: 11D_3281
- Caption: "AiResearch ADvasnced Extra-Vehicular Suit 1967 AiResearch/Garrett Corporation "Concurrent with the 'hard suit' program of the 1960s, NASA also sought to develop highly mobile, hybrid (rather than totlly hard) spacesuits. Hybrid suits like this one were built from fabrics, bonded together (laminated) to form a semi-rigid single-wall structure. Innovative joint designs were incorporated to solve the problems of restricted mobility and astronaut fatigue. The advantges of these joint systems were that the wearer could bend and move without changing the internal pressure of the suit--thereby decreasing the wearer's physical exertion. "Hybrid suits were deceveloped in an effort to make the most of the best features of both the hard and soft suit designs."
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