An Out of this World Seamstress

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Unfortunately, her history cannot be easily found, but Hazel Fellows work on NASA’s space suit is something legendary.

As the group leader in the then International Latex Corporation’s production of their  latest space suit in mid-1960’s, Hazel Fellows helped to construct the space suit ‘Z-2.’ This suit was futuristic looking and became a prototype for modern space suits we see today in science fiction.

What makes this such an incredible moment for Fellows is that the same company would produce the suit worn by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin for the first moon landing in 1969.

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