What to Wear in Space
b'Making the Apollo Space Suit
Guest:\\xa0Bill Ayrey, former space suit test engineer and company historian at ILC Dover for over forty years, and author of "Lunar Outfitters: Making the Apollo Space Suit"
ILC Dover started out as an international latex company. However, creative employees and talented engineers dreamed bigger. After many attempts to win NASA\\u2019s favor, they finally won the contract to build the Apollo space suits.
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Spacefarers
Guest: Christopher Wanjek, author of "Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond"
Remember the excitement around the space race? We\'ve made it to the moon, we\\u2019ve sent satellites, we\\u2019ve blasted off shuttles and rockets and telescopes. There\\u2019s no doubt that space is exciting, so why aren\\u2019t more humans in space? What happened to the excitement?'