The suit, with lunar dust still embedded in the fabric, was revealed alongside Vice President Mike Pence and members of Armstrong's family at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in ...

Smithsonian raises $550,000 to preserve Neil Armstrong space suit By Wyatt Massey, Special to CNN. 3 minute read Updated 12:36 PM EDT, Tue July 28, 2015 Link Copied! ...

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.

Either way, that’s a lot to wear and the suit came by its weight rightly, since it was composed of no fewer than 21 layers of cloth and neoprene and glass coated threads, all designed to keep ...

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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 his iconic space suit, which has been locked away ...

The National Air and Space museum is trying to save a piece of U.S. history. The museum has launched a crowd-funding campaign to conserve the space suit Neil Armstrong wore on the moon. The ...

Each suit was custom-made for the two astronauts who walked on the Moon (Armstrong and Aldrin); in fact, all of the space suits were individually tailored at this time.

Neil Armstrong wore his space suit, which was laid out recently at a Smithsonian conservation laboratory, for about 12 hours. GREG KAHN FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. By Daniel Nasaw.

Smithsonian raises $550,000 to preserve Neil Armstrong space suit By Wyatt Massey, Special to CNN. 3 minute read Updated 12:36 PM EDT, Tue July 28, 2015 Link Copied! ...

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 ...