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Space is a vacuum. To survive there, humans need a pressurized vessel which maintains an Earth-like atmospheric pressure of 1 bar—a space capsule. And those who want to leave the capsule require a space suit equipped with a life support system and a pressurized atmosphere. At the same time, the space suit needs to be mobile and dexterous enough for an astronaut to be able to work while wearing it.
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Anybody interested in details about the development of the space suits, should check out Part 5: Suits of the movie series Moon Machines listed at the end of Chapter 15.
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Robert Crippen, for example, knew this when he and his colleague John Young (the same Young, who made the jump on the Moon that I described earlier) made the first flight with a Space Shuttle. Crippen apparently did not entirely trust the computers on board the Shuttle. To be on the safe side, he took the then advanced HP41C pocket calculator on the journey. In case of a complete computer failure at on-board, he would have used it to calculate the ignition of the retrorockets for a safe return to Earth.
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The development of the rover and its components (folding mechanism, wheels, steering, cooling, etc.) as well as the ingenuity of the participants is impressively described in the sixth part The Lunar Rover of the film series Moon Machines.
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People who wear glasses with older, scratched lenses or glasses without an anti-reflective coating will be familiar with these light reflections.
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The series consisted of the three television films: Man in Space, Man and the Moon, and Mars and Beyond. They can all be found on YouTube.
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In this context, critics like to refer to William Karel’s award-winning film Opération Lune/Dark Side of the Moon think they can also prove a conspiracy with it. They miss the satirical character of this fictional documentary, which is full of half-truths and suggestions. The point of the film is to encourage us not to just blindly accept all assertions.
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Eversberg, T. (2019). Anything Else?. In: The Moon Hoax?. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05460-1_13
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