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In an April 1968 issue...
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In an April 1968 issue of Aerospace Medicine, a NASA researcher on a space activity suit published an article. The distinctive garment proposed was to be a skintight suit enabling the Apollo astronauts to travel on the moon's surface with ease and mobility. It was distinctively lighter and less bulky than the suits worn in the earlier Mercury and Gemini programs. Because of delays, this suit was never produced for use in the Apollo program. The suit actually used was the A7L-B. It weighed 175 pounds including an eighty-pound portable life support system and a forty-pound back-up.