Current NASA flight suit replication (2021 version)

[kurofeadra]

Something I forgot to mention before: if you wear it outside for a long period of time (say, a few years because you're volunteering at a science museum), the blue color will be sun bleached! That's why my second photo looks a little darker than the correct color.

 

[ID10T]

Yeah, my suit is used and slightly faded. But not too bad fortunately, as I had to remove those stripes and it was not faded at all under them.

 

[GhostOfThrawn]

Yeah, they messed mine up too. I got a pair of the small meatballs, with the white border and the wing staying inside the border... Same deal; keep those and the correct ones are on their way. I was told that due to the "USA" meatballs being new, and (internally) they refer to the white border patches as "the meatball" and the others as "The vector" it apparently caused confusion.

(I also got a big back patch to do a lab coat later; China made but seems fine to me)

At least they are good about it, when they make an error.

I gave away two of my original China meatballs to co-workers here.

I just also received the wrong meatballs. A huge bummer as these took several months to arrive.

 

[Intelligence8]

Dam, I commend you for doing all this if it wasn't for you I'd probably never of ever gotten the real meatball patch, I did the same same thing as you did butt I only want the top part which seems to be sentinel shirt from G&B I'm just getting the name tag atm and it's pretty cool, ik this post is very old but still I'm grateful, thank you.

 

[ID10T]

I don’t know about any “top part”. Pilots and crew all wear full suits.

But, G&B makes their flight jackets too. Maybe that’s what you mean. I think I posted all the info to order the exact model NASA orders. If not, pm me to get it. Also Nomex so not cheap…

 

[Intelligence8]

Yes I know the pilots and crew members all wear flight suits and flight jackets, by top part I ment maybe just getting the upper half of the flight suit, like the sentinel shirt I know no one at nasa wears one but I wanted something more light weight, for the summer I'm still getting all three which is the flight suit, flight jacket, and sentinel shirt which seems to be like the flight suit but instead of being a one piece it's a two piece, I got all the patches and everything except for the name tags or as some people call it air wings, I've contacted G&B but it's labor day so I guess they're busy I don't know. But I don't know if its just me but on the sentinel shirts it seems that the royal blue is different from the rest or maybe it's the nomex I don't know, in some lightings and photos it looks indigo while in others it's like a lighter blue or something while the jacket and flight suit is more similar to the reference photo maybe I'm just seeing things I don't know.

 

[lmgill]

Yes I know the pilots and crew members all wear flight suits and flight jackets, by top part I ment maybe just getting the upper half of the flight suit, like the sentinel shirt I know no one at nasa wears one but I wanted something more light weight, for the summer I'm still getting all three which is the flight suit, flight jacket, and sentinel shirt which seems to be like the flight suit but instead of being a one piece it's a two piece, I got all the patches and everything except for the name tags or as some people call it air wings, I've contacted G&B but it's labor day so I guess they're busy I don't know. But I don't know if its just me but on the sentinel shirts it seems that the royal blue is different from the rest or maybe it's the nomex I don't know, in some lightings and photos it looks indigo while in others it's like a lighter blue or something while the jacket and flight suit is more similar to the reference photo maybe I'm just seeing things I don't know.

I'm not sure if you are referring to this, but the Shuttle crew did not wear flight suits into space, only in the T-38 and press events. The early shuttle flights, up till the Challanger accident, the crew wore a jacket and pants made from Nomex.

 

[Intelligence8]

Yes your right, I'm just trying to get the patch placement exactly like this, for the flight suit and sentinel shirt which is basically just the top without the pants, im not sure if I should use different patches for the jacket, only thing about the sentinel shirt is that compared to the flight suit the color royal blue is more of an indigo. I'm guessing it's they type of material that makes the blue less indigo.

 

[ID10T]

Only the name tape and meatball are “critical” (and even that depends on the persons frame).

The other patches are more or less the same but not “uniform”

That said, Josh above looks similar to mine with the commercial crew patches.

 

[Intelligence8]

The hardest part to get seems to be the name tape, I do have a leather one that I once saw them wear I think, everything else was pretty easy to get though, and your right those two items are the most important. I'm gonna try to get most variants of the name tape.

 

[ID10T]

G&B makes the tapes for NASA so you just decide on the branch of service (or mission specialist) for your wings and decide on a name to use.

Always best to call and speak to them because the mission specialist is not shown amongst the wings.