After the first u. S. Moon landing. Panelists including designers. The space museum was the host of this event here in washington, d. C. Weve assembled a panel of speakers, a really fantastic. Some of my favorite people i like to talk to when talking about spacesuits, to recount the making of the apollo spacesuits and to inform us on the lessons that we have learned as we are going back to the next spacesuit in the next thing in spacesuit development, be it going back to the moon, going to an asteroid or going on to mars. In order to save time for tonights program, im going to introduce all four speakers and theyre going to come up and tell their stories and then well have time for discussion and questions from the audience at the end. Our speakers tonight in order of appearance are first bill airy, who is a recently retired test engineer at ilc dover, the company that made the apollo spacesuits and the suits that astronauts use to space walk from the iss when they leave via the americ
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
All right, lets bring this hearing to order. In december of 2017, President Trump outlined a bold space in december of 2017, President Trump outlined a bold vision to reinvigorate space leadership. Space leadership calls for returning humans to the moon for the First Time Since 1972. This time it will be for long time exploration and use and will be followed by manned missions to mars. Nasa had planned to return to the moon by 2028, but in the speech to the National Space council in april, Vice President announced a dramatic acceleration of that time line. Cil in april, Vice President announced a dramatic acceleration of that time line. Under the program, the United States will land the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2024 and accomplish a sustained presence on the moon or in lunar orbit. I share the administrations sense of urgency. As i told the administrator, the United States has entered a new space race driven by the expansion of chinas space power ambitions and the ex
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Though 32 Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbirds" were built, 11 were lost in accidents – yet not a single aircraft was shot down by the enemy. But the flight suit needed to get into this hot rod in the sky was quite something.