Time is unkind to 40-year-old spacesuits

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2009/07/preserving-spacesuits-and-tranquility.html

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She even has under her care the suit worn by Neil Armstrong when he stepped out on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969, and made history as the first man to walk on the moon.

But she agrees the passage of time has not been kind to these historic artifacts. "They don't do well because of the light and the humidity," she said. "They are made out of 21 layers of synthetic material. They are brittle," she said, adding