Apollo-Soyuz Intra-Vehicular Cover Layer and Gloves

Astronaut Vance Brand wore this space suit cover layer and gloves during the Apollo Soyuz Test Project in July 1975. Brand piloted the Apollo spacecraft during the mission’s historic first orbital docking of spacecraft from different countries.

Cover Layer from the collection of Kansas Cosmosphere
Gloves from the collection of National Air and Space Museum

The artifacts are on display in the Spaceflight: The Marine Astronauts exhibition at the National Museum of the Marine Corps through January 2024.