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Spacesuit

Autor: De Monchaux, Nicholas (Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California)

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: MIT Press Ltd

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When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spaces...

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Autor

De Monchaux, Nicholas (Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California)

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2011

strony

380

EAN

9780262015202

ISBN

026201520X

Enbook ID

04365330

Wydawca

MIT Press Ltd

Waga

1014

Wymiary

186 x 231 x 25

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When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: twenty-one layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles. This book is the story of that spacesuit. It is a story of the triumph over the military-industrial complex by the International Latex Corporation, best known by its consumer brand of "Playtex" -- a victory of elegant softness over engineered hardness, of adaptation over cybernetics. Playtex's spacesuit went up against hard armor-like spacesuits designed by military contractors and favored by NASA's engineers. It was only when those attempts failed--when traditional engineering firms could not integrate the body into mission requirements--that Playtex, with its intimate expertise, got the job. In Spacesuit, Nicholas de Monchaux tells the story of the twenty-one-layer spacesuit in twenty-one chapters addressing twenty-one topics relevant to the suit, the body, and the technology of the twentieth century. He touches, among other things, on eighteenth-century androids, Christian Dior's New Look, Atlas missiles, cybernetics and cyborgs, latex, JFK's carefully cultivated image, the CBS lunar broadcast soundstage, NASA's Mission Control, and the applications of Apollo-style engineering to city planning. The twenty-one-layer spacesuit, de Monchaux argues, offers an object lesson. It tells us about redundancy and interdependence and about the distinctions between natural and man-made complexity; it teaches us to know the virtues of adaptation and to see the future as a set of possibilities rather than a scripted scenario.

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