There is a competition to make the spacesuit for the first moon landing Ellie, an ordinary woman, is asked to lead a team of other talented seamstresses. No one believes they can win, but they are determined to try. Based on the incredible true story behind the spacesuit that astronauts wore on the first moon walk and the team of women who sewed it together.

The Spacesuit Coloring Book (Hardback Special Edition): Learn the history and future of spacesuits through coloring. Featuring 18 detailed spacesuits from 3 different countries from 1961 to 2024, plus learn 5 quick facts about each spacesuit while having fun! Special Edition features a glossy hardbound cover with larger pages and images for your coloring! Showcase and keep your amazing spacesuit coloring and designs in this special edition! Also includes BONUS: 8 additional Spacesuit Components to color and double the amount of blank spacesuit templates (a total of 10!) are also included for you to design your own spacesuit! Spacesuit design involves science, technology, engineering and math skills (STEM). Who knew learning about STEM could be fun?! For space and science lovers of all ages.

* the most accurate and comprehensive work on U.S. spacesuits ever published. *A unique insight into the development of US spacesuits through to the present day. * Presents in context the authors’ unique collection of 172 black and white photographs. * Explains why spacesuits are a last refuge for astronauts for survival. * Details many technically and historically interesting developments, but which never achieved fruition.

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

Introducing Air Jordan Coloring Book: Midnight Edition. Troy Davinci has done it again with this Limited Midnight Editon. you LOVE Air Jordans - everything about them... especially their super-cool colors and designs - then imagine yourself CREATING the colors and designs that you always wanted to see. No matter what your level of artistic skill is, you can have a BLAST coloring the sneakers you love to admire - Air Jordans - and show the world what a FAN you are If you're a true "sneakerhead" - you can even customize your own sneakers by working out the designs via this coloring book This book comes with digitally-drawn representations of the famous Air Jordan sneakers, with TWO identical drawings of each shoe so that you can experiment with different colors and designs. This is truly a one-of-a-kind book and will provide hours of fun for fans of all ages

Coloring Book for Kids - Makes for a Perfect Gift or for Personal Use This coloring book, pad and journal is perfect for children of all ages that loves to escape the distractions and troubles of everyday life by focusing on the mindfulness and creativity within coloring. Whether you or your child enjoys drawing pictures, coloring in the lines, making beautiful art come to life with vibrant colors or simply looking to purchase that gift for the person that seems to have everything -- this coloring book is the perfect choice! This book is loaded with original art images on each page, while also having an original GreetingPages watermark on the back of each coloring page as well. This means every page in the book is their own individual page, so there are no worries about colors bleeding through. There is also a rotation of fun faded art designs on the back of each coloring page. These designs consist of stars, cute monsters, monkeys, giraffe with balloons, and funny face sun toons. These pages can also serve as unique coloring designs for activity as well. SIZE: 8.5x11 PAPER: White Paper with Cartoon Designs PAGES: 69 Pages COVER: Soft Cover (Matte) Book Features: Perfect for coloring, drawing, creativity and mindfulness Printed on high quality interior stock paper Premium matte finish cover with amazing art work Great for improving drawing, painting or doodle skills A perfect gift for artists, creative kids or designers Order your copy today!

The goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth required the development of three things: spacecraft, launch vehicles, and protective clothing. Spacesuits: Within the Collections of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum takes the reader through the development of the last category, the spacesuits used during this venture. Highlighting the pressure suits created during the years leading up to the lunar missions and beyond, this book features dramatic photographs of the Smithsonian's collection, as well as never-before-published historical images of spacesuit development and testing-range-of-motion studies, for example, in which researchers wore spacesuits while playing baseball and football. The book also includes a group of advanced spacesuits, which, though never used on a mission, are in many respects the most exciting suits ever created. One suit glove has steel fingernails and sharkskin pads, in an attempt to harness the abilities of the human hand. Spacesuits are surprisingly fragile; they are made for a short lifespan in the most extreme of conditions, and long-term survival is not part of their design process. The final chapter touches briefly on the current conditions of historic suits, how they have held up over time, the reasons for their deterioration, and the rewards and difficulties associated with caring for and preserving these very complex and iconic artifacts. From the first spacesuit designs of the 1930s through those worn on the landmark Apollo-Soyuz program of 1975, Spacesuits provides a behind-the-scenes look at the history of these remarkable creations, including some that have never before been publicly displayed.

With more than 35 magnificent images of outer space from NASA, this coloring book will capture the imagination of anyone interested in science, astronomy, and space exploration. Each spread features a full-color photograph from NASA's archives to inspire coloring on the adjacent page.

Super Cool Scientists #2 is a story and coloring book that celebrates women in science. It highlights amazing women from across the country doing important work in astronomy, marine science, cybersecurity, and more. They are leaders in their fields and also in education, art, business, and mentoring other young people to pursue careers in STEM. Join us in celebrating women in STEM - recognizing the people who do this work every day and also inspiring the next generation of scientists. Super Cool Scientists #2 is the second in the Super Cool Scientists series. Check out the original too!

Forty-four captioned illustrations accurately depict scenes of major milestones in space exploration — from launching of first liquid-fuel rocket in 1926 to Challenger tragedy in 1986. Other exciting drawings: launch of Sputnik (1957), first U.S. space walk (1965), first men on the moon (1969), more.