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“APOLLO 16 SUIT CHECK---Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot for the upcoming Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, tries on for size the flight version of the Apollo extravehicular space suit at ILC Industries, Inc., Dover, Delaware. The A7LB, used on the Apollo 15 mission and scheduled for use on Apollos 16 and 17, replaces the pre-Apollo 15 A7L versions. The EV suit, together with a liquid cooling garment, portable life support system (PLSS), oxygen purge system, lunar extravehicular visor assembly, lunar boots and gloves and other components make up the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU). Part of the PLSS is visible here.”

An excellent, articulate & informative caption. Must be of ILC origin.

SWAG: Post-recovery photo of stuff inside Apollo 14 Command Module 'Kitty Hawk'. The scuffed & abraded red stripe indicates that at least part of it is Alan Shepard's EMU. Or, it could be David Scott's...from Apollo 15. Or for that matter, it might be an EVA training EMU for one or the other. However, the photo ID number seems to be representative of actual flight photography, although its sequence, when compared to other Apollo 14 & 15 ‘S-71-‘ photographs is problematic.

The tan colored metal plate in the foreground is an adapter bracket used to mount the Hasselblad EL camera in the Command Module rendezvous window. With the 80-mm lens, the camera was aligned along a line pitched up 12° from the x-axis; with the 250-mm lens, the camera was aligned along the x-axis.

I wonder what the brown accordion-like thing is? Reminds me of what vacuum cleaner bags looked like a LONG time ago.

The Commander for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Apollo 17 Mission, Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan is shown during a final flight suit fit check at the ILC Industries Inc. plant at Dover.

Who can resist something this cool? A young visitor to the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service's (SITES) show "Suited for Space" gets close up to an x-ray of an Apollo-era spacesuit. These x-rays now allow conservators and engineers to "see inside" the complicated spacesuit.

The image was taken at the Science Museum of Virginia. Photo by Mark Avino/Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

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