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My first little edit for theatlantic.com, co-produced with Alexis Madrigal, featuring archival footage from the George Mason University Library. A huge thank you to the amazing Alan Wilkis for letting us use his music!

Hope you like it! Just a little teaser for lots more awesome down the road. 

theatlantic:

Video: NASA Testing Awesome Old Spacesuits

While Nicholas de Monchaux’s recent book, Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, is now the definitive investigation of this terrain, the short video above gets at something fundamental to the space enterprise, too. Namely, it’s funny to design things for the heavens from down here on the ground. That is to say, watching a guy catch a football on a high school field wearing a spacesuit is awesome. 

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