NASA APOLLO PROGRAM XK1-L SPACESUIT MOBILITY TESTING LUNAR ROVER VEHICLE TEST ARTICLES XD46814

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Dating to the mid-to-late 1960s, this silent film shows various equipment mock-ups for the Apollo program, including motion range studies for spacesuits in mock-ups of Lunar Roving Vehicles or LVRs. It was probably shot at the Marshall Space Flight Center. The film is one of many made to demonstrate astronaut mobility. The spacesuit shown is an early (possibly first prototype) which International Latex Corporation submitted to NASA as part of the Apollo suit competition in 1962, known as an SPD-143 model suit, (SPD for Special Products Division). NASA referred to this suit as being part of the AX1-L series and often referred to as a “Modified Training and Evaluation Suit.“ The reason the suit looks strange to a modern viewer is that it does not have an outer shell, because the joint designs were considered in development and left exposed to allow further study. T