{"id":6505,"date":"2014-02-15T20:17:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T20:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6505"},"modified":"2014-02-15T20:17:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T20:17:51","slug":"video-adam-savages-mercury-spacesuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6505","title":{"rendered":"Video: Adam Savage&#8217;s Mercury spacesuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Savage of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MythBusters\" target=\"_d\">MythBusters<\/a>\u00a0fame has created a highly detailed reproduction of the spacesuits used for the Mercury missions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tested.com\/science\/space\/460061-adam-savages-mercury-spacesuit-replica\/\" target=\"_d\">Adam Savage&#8217;s Mercury Spacesuit Replica &#8211; Tested<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tested.com\/premium\/460063-premium-putting-adams-mercury-spacesuit\/\" target=\"_d\">Premium: Putting on Adam&#8217;s Mercury Spacesuit &#8211; Tested<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/adam-savages-mercury-spacesuit-replica-is-absolutely-g-1523489504?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+io9%2Ffull+%28io9%29\" target=\"_d\">Adam Savage&#8217;s Mercury Spacesuit Replica is absolutely gorgeous &#8211; io9<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this video Adam discusses the spacesuit and also an\u00a0<a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alexanderleathers.com\/nasa1.html\" target=\"_d\">Apollo era Flight Jacket<\/a>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aLOVS5Fl1OY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Savage of\u00a0MythBusters\u00a0fame has created a highly detailed reproduction of the spacesuits used for the Mercury missions: Adam Savage&#8217;s Mercury Spacesuit Replica &#8211; Tested Premium: Putting on Adam&#8217;s Mercury Spacesuit &#8211; Tested Adam Savage&#8217;s Mercury Spacesuit Replica is absolutely gorgeous &#8211; io9 In this video Adam discusses the spacesuit and also an\u00a0Apollo era Flight Jacket\u00a0:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-simulators"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1GV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6928,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6928","url_meta":{"origin":6505,"position":0},"title":"Bonhams space history auction","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The New York auction house Bonhoms is holding an auction of US and Russian\/Soviet space memorabilia and collectibles on April 8th: Bonhams : The Space History Sale US glam or Soviet grunge? 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