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Moon Zero Two

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Where there is space, there are spacesuits and Moon Zero Two is no exception.  For a low budget production, the suits worn by Captain Kemp et al are not bad with echoes of both 1960s spacesuit designs and ideas for Activity Suits, which were just coming off the drawing boards. Not only are the joint bellows in the right place, but the hard chest piece, albeit with pronounced "nipples", is a nice touch and very similar to the sort of design used by American astronauts today.

There's even a control panel strapped to the suit's wrist to control the various functions courtesy of an array of knobs, switches and buttons so counterintuitive and unhelpful that they could have come from a 21st century remote control.  But do be careful playing with the controls because the life-support pack also boasts a tiny rocket motor to help the spacemen get about.

Try not to look too closely at the suit's gauntlets, though.  They're  suspiciously like the sort of kitchen rubber gloves you buy down the shops.  Perhaps astronauts hate dishpan hands.

On the other hand, the spacesuits do include a water-cooled undergarment obviously modelled on the real thing on the left.  Naturally, for budget reasons, we never see the garment below chest level.  All that plastic piping runs into money.

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