Oeil Armstrong's First footfall on the moon was one small step for man, but it was one giant leap for a maker of ladies' girdles. He wouldn't have had such a snazzy spacesuit were it not for an epic struggle between a by-the-book defense contractor and a lingerie company run by a car mechanic and a TV repairman. As chronicled in author Nicholas de Mon-chaux's Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, out in March, the battle started in 1962. Inter-
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机译:奥伊尔·阿姆斯特朗(Oeil Armstrong)首次登上月球对人类而言只是一小步,但对于制造女士腰带的制造商来说,却是一次巨大的飞跃。如果不是按计划的国防承包商与汽车修理工和电视修理工经营的内衣公司之间发生史诗般的斗争,他就不会有如此时髦的宇航服。正如作者尼古拉斯·德蒙乔(Nicholas de Mon-chaux)的《太空服:塑造阿波罗》记载的那样,战斗于1962年开始。
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