Who made Neil Armstrong's space suit? The answer is kinda hilarious.

Who made Neil Armstrong's space suit? The answer is kinda hilarious.

No one knows what Columbus was wearing when he set foot in the New World, but on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong took his “one giant leap” onto the Moon, he was clad in a custom-made spacesuit.

The model, A7L, serial number 056. Its cost, estimated at the time as $100,000 (more than $670,000 today), sounds high only if you think of it as couture.

In reality, once helmet, gloves and an oxygen-supplying backpack were added, it was a wearable spacecraft.

For the suit’s creator, the International Latex Corporation in Dover, Delaware, the toughest challenge was to contain the pressure necessary to support life (about 3.75 pounds per square inch of pure oxygen), while maintaining enough flexibility to afford freedom of motion.

A division of the company that manufactured Playtex bras and girdles, ILC had engineers who understood a thing or two about rubber garments.

The bra manufacturer was able to send it's new clothing to outer space!

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