A Spacesuit Ballet

Science Friday produced this video, which gets progressively more involved. Their blog describes it:

Of the spacesuit he wore on the moon, Neil Armstrong wrote, “it was tough, reliable, and almost cuddly.” But that cuddly suit, made by the company Playtex, had some stiff competition (literally) from rival rigid, metal designs.This SciFri video features archival NASA footage of mobility tests for several spacesuit prototypes (watch for the human bubble design!). The music is from the awesome band One Ring Zero’s album “Planets,” which you should listen to in its entirety by buying it here. A galactic thanks to them for sharing their music with us.