One of the great joys of getting an Arts Council grant for the PlayTime event - and at a stroke turning golf on the moon with David Bowie into a *serious* project rather than a rambling blog, oh yes - was that I could justify the purchase of a NASA-approved space suit. I look good in it, no?
Now I learn that the official colour of this outfit is pumpkin-orange:
"For all seven crewmembers - and especially the five first-time fliers - the real thrill came on Thursday when, dressed in pumpkin-orange spacesuits, they scrambled into their seats aboard the shuttle for the final few hours of a practice launch countdown.
"It's much more immediate when you come here and see the vehicle stacked on the launch pad as it is now," said Discovery astronaut Nicholas Patrick, a North Yorkshire-born, University of Cambridge-educated pilot and mechanical engineer who joined Nasa's astronaut corps in 1998. "It really looks like we're about to take off in it," he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6159434.stm
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