Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo

Author(s): Nicholas De Monchaux

Fiction

How the twenty-one-layer Apollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph of intimacy over engineering.

General Information

  • : 9780262015202
  • : MIT Press Ltd
  • : MIT Press
  • : 0.454
  • : 10 February 2011
  • : United States
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Nicholas De Monchaux
  • : Hardback
  • : 629.4772
  • : 250
  • : col. Illustrations

More About The Product

Nicholas de Monchaux is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley. His work has appeared in the architectural journal Log, the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Architectural Digest, and other publications.