and display" Neil Armstrong's suit after it was placed in storage in 2006 to minimize signs of aging. "It's really humbling," Young said. "It's really a privilege to work on the space suits." ...

I think I'd like to go into space, and I'd like to wear our own suit that we make. I think I can depend on it. VELTMAN: Neil Armstrong's spacesuit with its white marshmallow-like coveralls and ...

Neil Armstrong's lunar spacesuit had ... another world,” says Cathleen Lewis, the Air and Space Museum’s curator for aeronautics. The suit is no stranger to the public. The National ...

Conservator Lisa Young works on Armstrong’s suit in the Conservation Lab at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in December 2013. Dane Penland / NASM Neil Armstrong ...

The 46 years since Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon have not lessened the sense of wonder of that that moment. But the decades have deteriorated Armstrong’s iconic space suit, which for years ...

When astronaut Neil Armstrong ... "The suit itself is an engineering marvel," says Malcolm Collum, the chief conservator for the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

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Astronaut Neil Armstrong's historically significant space suit is the latest subject of restoration at the Smithsonian. The crew hopes to not only fully restore the suit itself, but to digitize ...

Astronaut Neil Armstrong's spacesuit rubs ... is highlighted on the magazine's cover. The suit is now a part of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum collection. [See Photos from NASA's ...

Cathleen Lewis, curator of international space programs and spacesuits, and Lisa Young, objects conservator, explain how the museum will use the Kickstarter money to protect Armstrong's suit.