1960s NASA MOBILITY TEST FOOTAGE LUNAR ROVING VEHICLE & SPACE SUIT MOCK-UPS XD31424

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Dating to the mid-to-late 1960s, this silent film shows various equipment mock-ups for the Apollo program, including motion range studies for spacesuits and a mock-up of the Lunar Roving Vehicle or LVR. It was probably shot at the Marshall Space Flight Center. The film is one of many made to demonstrate astronaut mobility. The film begins with shots of subjects getting into spacesuits which appear similar in design to those worn in the Mercury era. Most likely these are A4-H designs, made by Hamilton Standard for ILC Industries. ILC produced these suits specifically for training in the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) prototypes in 1965. The A4-H is also known as a “mobility“ suit because it allowed the astronaut to sit, unlike previous suit designs. NASA accepted delivery of twelve of these suits for use in the LRV program, but they didn’t go any further than that, as t