Jun. 20th, 2007
Rocket Corset from 1961
Jun. 20th, 2007 06:59 pmCorsetry buffs will be interested in this. It doesn't do a thing for your figure, though.
Recognizing that astronauts in orbit would want to move around, Bell Aerospace in 1961 began developing a Zero-G Belt. This device has clusters of tiny rocket nozzles. It's powered by compressed nitrogen stored in a series of curved tubes around the operator's waist.
It was devised by Wendell Moore, the same engineer who cooked up the better-known Bell Rocket Belt.
The fine folks at the Contrails project have just scanned in this report (4.4 MB PDF).
( Illustrations from AMRL TDR 63-23, "Development And Test Of The Bell Zero-G Belt." )
Recognizing that astronauts in orbit would want to move around, Bell Aerospace in 1961 began developing a Zero-G Belt. This device has clusters of tiny rocket nozzles. It's powered by compressed nitrogen stored in a series of curved tubes around the operator's waist.
It was devised by Wendell Moore, the same engineer who cooked up the better-known Bell Rocket Belt.
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The fine folks at the Contrails project have just scanned in this report (4.4 MB PDF).
( Illustrations from AMRL TDR 63-23, "Development And Test Of The Bell Zero-G Belt." )