I finished up my Apollo inflight coveralls yesterday. This was the garment worn inside the spacecraft during the Apollo missions, not the A7L space suit, which I'm making next. This is the outfit they're wearing for most of the Apollo 13 movie. I patterned this all out based on very meticulous research of numerous garments at the Smithsonian. I found a fabric that is very close to the teflon fabric used on the originals. The patches are laser printed heat press transfers. The name tag is the correct tag for the inflight coveralls (First initial and last name in Alternate Gothic typeface). The name tags in the movie are wrong (they just used their last names). I'm also wearing a vintage Plantronics headset, the same model used on many of the Apollo missions and in Mission Control.
The sleeve pockets were meant to hold sunglasses, a pen light, and a mechanical pen and pencil. I have the correct modern equivalents for the American Optical gold aviators and the Fisher AG7 Space Pen. I also have a correct vintage Garland 35-p mechanical pencil, the same model issued to the astronauts. I don't have the brass ACR pen light yet, but I plan on machining a few replicas next year. They were designed for NASA and originals are super rare.
I'm also wearing an Omega Speedmaster clone made by a Japanese company on a replica velcro wristband that I made myself. It is adjustable and can be worn on the wrist, or reconfigured to be worn on the outside of the space suit.
I opted not to replicate the boots that go along with this outfit since they were never meant to be worn on Earth (they're just fabric and have velcro on the soles). Instead, I'm wearing white Converse All-stars, which were commonly worn with this outfit during training exercises.
Some original examples:
The sleeve pockets were meant to hold sunglasses, a pen light, and a mechanical pen and pencil. I have the correct modern equivalents for the American Optical gold aviators and the Fisher AG7 Space Pen. I also have a correct vintage Garland 35-p mechanical pencil, the same model issued to the astronauts. I don't have the brass ACR pen light yet, but I plan on machining a few replicas next year. They were designed for NASA and originals are super rare.
I'm also wearing an Omega Speedmaster clone made by a Japanese company on a replica velcro wristband that I made myself. It is adjustable and can be worn on the wrist, or reconfigured to be worn on the outside of the space suit.
I opted not to replicate the boots that go along with this outfit since they were never meant to be worn on Earth (they're just fabric and have velcro on the soles). Instead, I'm wearing white Converse All-stars, which were commonly worn with this outfit during training exercises.
Some original examples:
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