This silent film footage shows a mobility test conducted as part of the Apollo program. It’s unclear when it is from or where it was shot, but it likely dates to the early 1960s and the era of Lunar Module / Lunar Excursion Module design.The mock-up shown in the film might be the TM-1 mockup of the lunar module, built in 1964 out of wood by Grumman. What’s also interesting is that it appears to be shown inside a mock-up of the Lunar Module Adapter. The film was simply marked “Seeman spacesuit.” It’s likely that the reference is to Jerome Seeman, a researcher who worked either at NASA or the USAF Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson AFB. It’s possible the film documents a test performed under his guidance. The spacesuit shown in the film doesn’t appear to be a spacesuit at all, but something more akin to a mock-up pressure suit with a helmet similar to those used by rocket fuel handlers and a dummy life support backpack. The film roughly shows how an astronaut might enter and exit a spacecraft. He is shown entering the simulated lunar lander (its thrusters are visible at 1:59). He climbs a ladder at 3:45 and enters a hatch at 5:40. At 9:15 he leaves the mock-up on a set of stairs.

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