• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    It’s a ~$700,000 space suit custom tailored for a single astronaut on a single mission. Why wouldn’t it have the astronaut’s name stitched into it?

    Also, have you never seen a NASA/Air Force/Military uniform in general? They all wear their names somewhere.

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      4 months ago

      Also, so you can quickly put on the correct suit, quickly, in pretty disorienting conditions.

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      4 months ago

      It’s a 700k suit to make in today’s money.

      That doesn’t include R&D, and very notably doesn’t include things the life support backpack or helmet either. If you add those, you come to something like nearly 2 million in 1967 money, or nearly 19 million in modern money.

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        4 months ago

        $700k was calculated assuming T&D and 2024 dollars, so you’re doubling down on math I already did.

        The total budget for the suits in 1967 dollars was $100K/suit.