
SPACE SUITS FOR SPIES-IN-TRAINING FOUND
Plucked from piles of decomposing film, cardboard boxes and, as one NASA employee tactfully put it, "evidence of rodent activity," two sky-blue spacesuits recently returned to the light of day, anachronisms from an abandoned U.S. military program to put spies in space.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/06/07/s...reut/index.html
This is such a funny story to me! The project supposedly was started in 1963 and scraped not too long after.
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Lt. Col. Richard Lawyer, who was among the first group of astronauts chosen by the Air Force to serve in its Manned Orbiting Laboratory, or MOL. |