I highly recommend the book: Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de Monchaux >How the twenty-one-layer Apollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph o

I highly recommend the book: Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de Monchaux >How the twenty-one-layer Apollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph of intimacy over engineering. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/spacesuit https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/spacesuit It has an interesting behind-the-scenes look at how Playtex succeeded where other contractors failed, how they were almost cut out of the deal anyway, and ended up being awarded the contract as a subcontractor to another company that was able to provide the necessary government-compliant documentation.