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Pressure Suit, A4-H, Cytryn, Prototype

Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
Washington, DC, United States

This suit has the designation A4-H, and was designed and manufactured for Hamilton Standard by the International Latex Corporation in 1964. The A4-H series of suits were constructed in 1964, and were the fourth series of Apollo developmental/training suits.A4-H suits came in two configurations. Those with a white cover-layer were for training purposes only, and those with an aluminized covering were of flight configuration. The aluminized covering was for vacuum chamber thermal testing in addition to ground training.This suit is complete with gloves, boots and helmet, and was transferred to NASM from NASA - Johnson Space Center in July, 1977, on transfer document HOU-704.

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