Title: A readily available reference on the US space suit
Product review: Unlike Lloyd Mallan's "Suiting Up For Space", this book is currently in print.It has plenty of photos of Apollo, and Shuttle suits. It also has plenty of photos on aborted space suit projects of the 1960's and 70's. However the quality of the text does not match the richness of the photos. The text is rather topical and seems to deal with the spaceflights themselves rather than the development of the space suit worn on the mission. It tries awfully hard to be the space equivalent of C. G. Sweeting's definitive works on USAAF flying gear and clothing:"Combat Flying Clothing"and "Combat Flying Equipment". "Outfitting the Astronaut" seems only to wet the reader's apppetite for more meatier narrative on the development of the space suit. I did find the chapter on suit preservation at NASM though.
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