A maker ofessor, and spacesuit replicas. The Smithsonian National air and space museum in washington, d. C. , hosted this event. We have assembled a panel of speakers. Some of my favorite people i like to talk to when talking about spacesuits, to recount the making of the apollo spacesuits and inform us on the lessons we have learned in going back to the next thing in Spacesuit Development be it going to the moon, an asteroid, or mars. In order to save time, i will introduce all four speakers and they will come up sequentially and tell their stories. Then we will have time for discussion and questions from the audience at the end. Our speakers in order of appearance are a recently retired test engineer at ilc dover, the company that made the apollo spacesuits and makes the current spacesuits our astronauts used to spacewalk from the iss when they leave via the american port on the International Space station. The next speaker will be ryan nagata, an artist and maker from Southern Calif
Lessons we have learned in going back to the next thing in Spacesuit Development be it going to the moon, an asteroid, or mars. In order to save time, i will introduce all four speakers and they will come up sequentially and tell their stories. Then we will have time for discussion and questions from the audience at the end. Our speakers in order of a recentlyare retired test engineer at ilc ther, the company that made apollo spacesuits and makes the current spacesuits our astronauts used to spacewalk from the iss when they leave via the american port on the International Space station. The next speaker will be ryan an artist and maker from Southern California who did a unique approach to becoming a model maker. He started out as a film director, and discovered his real passion was making models, props, and costumes for hire. They are featured in many movies. Ryan will talk about his erience rear creating recreating the suits used in the biopic. A russian lead spacesuit in ther at the
The next thing in Spacesuit Development be it going to the moon, an asteroid, or mars. In order to save time, i will introduce all four speakers and they will come up sequentially and tell their stories. Then we will have time for discussion and questions from the audience at the end. Our speakers in order of appearance are a recently retired test engineer at ilc dover, the company that made the apollo spacesuits and makes the current spacesuits our astronauts used to spacewalk from the iss when they leave via the american port on the International Space station. The next speaker will be ryan nagata, an artist and maker from Southern California who did a unique approach to becoming a model maker. He started out as a film director, and discovered his real passion was making models, props, and costumes for hire. They are featured in many movies. Ryan will talk about his experience recreating some vintage suits used in the biopic. Our third speaker for tonight was a russian lead spacesuit
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