Let's have a look at the metallised kapton films used for thermal insulation on the Apollo spacecraft, and practically everything since. In the 1960s, NASA was experimenting with plastics stuck to metal sheets for spacecraft like the Echo balloons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...#FeministMoon

Project Echo - Wikipedia

I read a lot of the NASA reports on metal-coated plastics for my chapter on plastics in space for the Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics. These experiments in bonding metal to plastic resulted in the 'space blanket' used on both Earth and in space!🏺🧪

Plastics in Outer Space | 34 | The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology a

The advent of mass-produced plastics coincided with the Space Age in the 1950s. Plastics were used in spacecraft manufacture from the launch of the first