Saturday, September 21, 2013

"Bras in Space: The Incredible True Story Behind Upcoming Film Spacesuit"

“'We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.' – President John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1962, Rice University.

"When we think of the Apollo 11 moon landing, what do we think of? President Kennedy’s bold vision. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s heroism (unfortunately we rarely think about Command Module Pilot Michael Collins). Perhaps we even think of the incredible engineers, rocket scientists, astrophysicists and all the other geniuses at NASA who made it possible. Now we want you to think about your grandma’s bra.

"Why? Because without the technology behind that brassiere (or girdle), the moon landing would have been impossible. It turns out that the 21-layers of gossamer-thin fabric in the Apollo spacesuits that kept Armstrong and Aldrin from 'the lethal desolation of a lunar vacuum,' as Nicholas de Monchaux puts it in his remarkable book 'Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo,' was created by the same people who made your grandma’s bra. Playtex. And now, Warner Bros. has hired Richard Cordiner to adapt De Monchaux’s book, which is a story so good you almost believe it was scripted by a Hollywood scribe, not part of historical fact."

Read more:  http://www.thecredits.org/2013/09/bras-in-space-the-incredible-true-story-behind-upcoming-film-spacesuit/


Thanks to Timt for submitting this story.

I thought Playtex was only good for cross-your-heart bras.  Do the astronauts wear special space underwear under the spacesuits?  

9 comments:

BL Basketcase said...

BOOB FIXATION

OrbsCorbs said...

Is that bad?

BL Basketcase said...

NO! : )

legal stranger said...

Just proves only BOOBS should go into space!

OrbsCorbs said...

It took me a second or two to get that. Does that make me a boob?

kkdither said...

My mind wandered to the thought of weightlessness and the lack of need of support to hold the girls up. I guess a bra might be needed to keep the side to side action under control. {giggling}

BL Basketcase said...

No need to lift and separate, a quick twist of the shoulders and you would KNOCKERs out.

Timt49 said...

I stumbled across that and I just knew that fellow pervert Orbs would enjoy it. Maybe I can stumble across how they plumbed a space suit to handle waste. That would probably be good for a movie also.

KK, I'm sure that some minor searching would find how the female astronauts took care of the problem.

OrbsCorbs said...

Pervert? Who, me?