Above: a colorized photo from 1960 of a two-piece lunar exploration suit worn by a scientist from the Republic Aviation Corporation’s Life Sciences Laboratory, based in Farmingdale, New York. The suit includes a tripod and built-in seat in case the one-sixth gravity on the moon is too exhausting. No, actually, we’re guessing it was so the occupant could be stable while performing whatever duties a moon mission might require. In this case he has a couple of cheap wrenches for hands, so he’s probably about to assemble a piece of Ikea furniture. Trivia question: Which is older, Ikea or NASA? Simply by asking, you already know the answer. Anyway, moon suit designs advanced rapidly during the 1960s until reaching the point that they could actually keep astronauts’ blood and saliva from boiling in the vacuum of space, then of course they were never used because the moon landings were faked. And these older suits? They became garbage cans outside the Life Sciences Laboratory cafeteria.
