Jane Butchin, Delema Domegys, Inspector Mary Todd, and others on the shop floor at the Dover, Delaware, ILC plant, June 28, 1967.
Jane Butchin, Delema Domegys, Inspector Mary Todd, and others on the shop floor at the Dover, Delaware, ILC plant, June 28, 1967.
Seamstresses working at ILC Dover in the lead up to the Apollo 11 mission.
Seamstresses working at ILC Dover in the lead up to the Apollo 11 mission.
The same girls who started off their careers stitching bras and girdles found themselves making the suits of astronauts.
The same girls who started off their careers stitching bras and girdles found themselves making the suits of astronauts.
Few people are know that the small American town of Frederica in Delaware is the home of the spacesuit.
Few people are know that the small American town of Frederica in Delaware is the home of the spacesuit.
Some parts of the spacesuit had to be blind stiched by feeling underneath to get the parts to come together, sometimes within a sixty-fourth of an inch.
Some parts of the spacesuit had to be blind stiched by feeling underneath to get the parts to come together, sometimes within a sixty-fourth of an inch.