Flight Suit Changes
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 7:23 pm
Well i know most if not all of us have owned or atleast worn space camp flight suits over the years. Well looking at the old video, my 2 flight suits, and having seen the new flight suit recently ive noticed many changes over the years.
The flight suits i saw in the old video were pretty diffrent from the ones we can get now. About the only thing in common was they were light blue. The old flight suits had no NASA patch of any kind. The space camp patch was a black rectangular patch that said US Space Camp or something to that effect. Instead of the visitor center patch we have on their now they had a red patch that said Alabama Space and rocket center. They did however have the familiar american flag and shuttle paych. One other diffrence is the zippers were exposed and verry vissible. The flight suits also didnt have all the pockets that they do now. And on the back United States Space Camp was printed.
The first flight suit i had was light blue. It still had fewer pockets than the current ones and the zippers were exposed. But mine had nothing on the back and it had the familiar visitor center patch, shuttle patch, american flag, and round space camp patch. It also added a NASA worm patch. However the worm patch was above the round space camp patch and not on the sleeve.
My second flight suit which i still have had the same patches but the worm was moved to the sleave underneath the shuttle patch. Also this flight suit had all the now familiar pockets making it more like the ones worn by the astronauts and the zippers were now covered.
Having seen a more recent light blue flight suit i've seen it looked the same but the worm patch was replaced with the NASA vector or meatball otherwise it was the same.
As for the newest version they are dark blue and have all the familiar patches and pockets including the vector replacing the worm. The only reall diffrence i noticed was the lack of 2 main zippers which is rather inconvienient.
Anyone notice any other diffrences?
The flight suits i saw in the old video were pretty diffrent from the ones we can get now. About the only thing in common was they were light blue. The old flight suits had no NASA patch of any kind. The space camp patch was a black rectangular patch that said US Space Camp or something to that effect. Instead of the visitor center patch we have on their now they had a red patch that said Alabama Space and rocket center. They did however have the familiar american flag and shuttle paych. One other diffrence is the zippers were exposed and verry vissible. The flight suits also didnt have all the pockets that they do now. And on the back United States Space Camp was printed.
The first flight suit i had was light blue. It still had fewer pockets than the current ones and the zippers were exposed. But mine had nothing on the back and it had the familiar visitor center patch, shuttle patch, american flag, and round space camp patch. It also added a NASA worm patch. However the worm patch was above the round space camp patch and not on the sleeve.
My second flight suit which i still have had the same patches but the worm was moved to the sleave underneath the shuttle patch. Also this flight suit had all the now familiar pockets making it more like the ones worn by the astronauts and the zippers were now covered.
Having seen a more recent light blue flight suit i've seen it looked the same but the worm patch was replaced with the NASA vector or meatball otherwise it was the same.
As for the newest version they are dark blue and have all the familiar patches and pockets including the vector replacing the worm. The only reall diffrence i noticed was the lack of 2 main zippers which is rather inconvienient.
Anyone notice any other diffrences?
