Re: Apollo 13 Co2 Scrubber
The more accurate parts of this i can find the better and im waiting to hear back from a company that make professional and accurate Apollo space suits,
if i can get just the male, red hose connector part of the suit, then im in business.
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I’ve seen one of these suits in person. If you haven’t been around real A7L Spacesuits, they look okay. But if you have, you realize they’re really not as good as they look in the photos. Those replicas really fall somewhere in the, “slightly advanced Halloween costume” or “good background for a TV series on a budget” categories. I saw one moments after seeing John Young’s Apollo 10 backup suit, and the difference was quite obvious. Sure, they are expensive and well-made, but they lack a lot of key detail I suppose they just couldn’t make. It’s more like a man-shaped bag as opposed to a pressurized flight suit. It also lacks the real helmet (the visored cloth-covered domes in the moon photos aren’t of the helmet at all. Those were just covers to protect the head from the light. Those and many parts of the suits were thrown out and left on the moon right before they left the surface. This is a good link from NASA that shows a lot of good info on space suits:
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/ILC-SpaceSuits-RevA.pdf
Started getting things together, have given up on using actual parts to make up the unit as i cant find them and the price would probably be restrictive. Replicating parts should be faily easy
You might be able to make a decent-looking version of the filter conversion, but not an exact one as you simply won’t find all those real NASA components within your lifetime. I drool every time I see that scene of them spilling all that stuff out of the box, knowing every bit of it is a replica.
Here are a few points I have to make on reading this thread:
Space collectors are an odd breed and they have infinitely deep pockets. You’ll never outbid a space collector on anything actually used in the Apollo program that is interesting at all. They also go after movie prop stuff because often that’s the only option you have for certain items.
The Kansas Cosmosphere does AMAZING work, but at equally amazing prices. They will make things for you, but you better have amazingly deep pockets.
A great deal of “real” items associated with the moon landings has been faked over the years. Just like German WW2 stuff, reproductions were being made almost as soon as the real event was over with. I’d say greater than 2/3rds of all NASA items you’ll see on eBay are fakes.