Bill Ayrey
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780813066578
- eISBN:
- 9780813058849
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813066578.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
After two years of much difficulty getting an acceptable suit from the ILC/Hamilton team, NASA reopens the Apollo suit contract and invites Hamilton Standard and B. F. Goodrich to team up and provide ...
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After two years of much difficulty getting an acceptable suit from the ILC/Hamilton team, NASA reopens the Apollo suit contract and invites Hamilton Standard and B. F. Goodrich to team up and provide a new suit. NASA also invites the David Clark Co. to provide a suit. ILC pleads with NASA and ultimately gets invited to submit another entry, the AX-5L space suit, which goes on the win the final Apollo suit contract. ILC is then made the prime contractor.Less
After two years of much difficulty getting an acceptable suit from the ILC/Hamilton team, NASA reopens the Apollo suit contract and invites Hamilton Standard and B. F. Goodrich to team up and provide a new suit. NASA also invites the David Clark Co. to provide a suit. ILC pleads with NASA and ultimately gets invited to submit another entry, the AX-5L space suit, which goes on the win the final Apollo suit contract. ILC is then made the prime contractor.
