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by Isamu 2753 days ago
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

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.