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MARQUARDT SPACE SLED

Posted 3/7/2007 Printable Fact Sheet
 
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Marquardt Space Sled
DAYTON, Ohio -- Marquardt Space Sled at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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A design for individual space maneuvering in the vicinity of a spacecraft, the space sled lost out to the seat-like maneuvering unit. The mannequin riding the sled is wearing an experimental space suit that was one of a series tested in the mid-1960s. Unlike the space sled, the suit was part of a continuing evolution which produced the operational space suits used today.

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