Like, I'm not joking. Here's an extract from a script I'm writing for a BBC show. Apollo 17 literally only went ahead because Roberta Pilkenton was an S-Rank Seamstress. They put her on a plane, the first time she'd ever been on one, and blitzed her to Florida to save the last lunar mission.
Please tell me this is a new season of 13 Minutes to the Moon…. Also, a sewing machine & other artifacts from the sewists are on display in the new Space Race gallery at the National Air & Space Museum. It’s so cool!
"Sew like the wind!" (20 points if you get that reference)
The suitcase of material handcuffed to her wrist is the sort of dramatic flourish I didn't expect in this context.
Sounds high brow but come on, admit it, it's QI... ;)
Sewing equipment being transported like it's a nuclear football is sending me somewhat 😂
Would NASA have swapped out the astronaut with a broken suit for his backup or were there only three suits made per mission?
You could be quoting this because it was so long since I read it, but there’s a great book on this: www.amazon.com/Spacesuit-Fa...
Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (Mit Press) [Nicholas de Monchaux] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (Mit Press)
Give me a a fucking show about the women who made space suits Netflix. Working class women, many of African-American origin, with years of experience making bras and female undergarments, just out there making the weird designs NASA blokes have come up with for space suits actually fucking work.