During the missions, the lens cap was taken off and just put in a suit pocket at the start of the EVA. The camera we used was an unflown specimen from the initial production run. Its owner (the Kansas Cosmosphere, IIRC) added the chain so that the cap wouldn't get lost. It wasn't an original part of the artifact or design, much to our relief.
What happens in Trona Pinnacles stays in Trona PinnaclesI plead the Fifth.
Nope.
You have the liquid-cooling garment. That's long underwear with a network of fine plastic tubes woven into it. The backpack circulates water through this network to remove body heat. Or not, since the system ended up working really well. Many of the crews said they were actually too cold on the Normal setting. There was a little wheel on the bottom corner of the backpack that worked like a thermostat control. Most of the crews set it on the warm side.
Then you have the pressure garment. That's what holds in the air. The helmet, boots, and gloves have metal rings that attach to the PGA at the neck, wrists, and ankles and make the pressure-tight seal there. You can see all the various devices that make the suit flexible despite the pressure it contains. You can also see the cables that run through friction colletts. This is to help you hold your arms and legs in a flexed position, where the pressure would want to spring them back straight.
The ingress air seal is via pressure-tight zippers. On the inside you have two overlapping rubber flaps that are pressed together by the internal pressure to create the seal. Then along the outside you have the zipper that holds the opposite edges together. It's a rather ingenious way to do it.
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The outer layer is the thermal and micrometeoroid protection layer, which is several alternating layers of white Beta cloth (a kind of fiberglass fabric) and thin polymer films. You use several layers to absorb small micrometeoroids. But that's the white layer that you commonly associate with the space suit. The outer layer is fastened by Velcro strips and normally stays put over the blue rubber layer. However, on one mission the crew took the outer layer off one suit to adjust the friction cables for one crew member's comfort.
The pressure-bearing "fishbowl" helmet was covered by a non-pressurized white EVA helmet. That had the plain and golden visors. I mentioned the gauntlets already. Then you have silicone and Chromel-R booties that strap on over the pressure-bearing boots.
If you want the whole story, Bill Ayrey's Lunar Outfitters is the standard reference.
Up to 75% of any given theater is held together with gaffer tape. It's structural.
Can you clarify why you're using the phrase ceteris paribus (all other things being equal) here? It makes no sense, given all the things that are not equal, such as:
You need to remember that classic paper on vehicular movement: The wheels on the bus go round and round..
That's not what your link says. Where did you get the 'dusty old Hasselblad' quote?
Obvs no random variables that could affect the fixed variables, which would be including correcting for the Moon's gravity being one-sixth of that of earth, like-for-like vehicle, like-for-like-weight, direction, speed and velocity. A random variable could be the weather or temperature, which could possibly change our expectation of the end result. For example, you could test acceleration due to gravity in the fall of an object, e.g., particles of dust and pebbles thrown up by the wheels of a buggy, by testing on earth in a lab with say, an AC vibrator and tickertape for the accceleration due to gravity and then observe the various forces that cause such dust to linger in the air behind observed said vehicle. On Earth, this would be wind that causes the 'rooster tail' effect, rather than the detritus falling in a parabolic wave. But there is no wind on the Moon. On the Moon, the lack of wind is a fixed variable and we should never see a 'rooster tail' effect, regardless of weather, temperature or other random variables such as weight or type of dust. The fact we DO see a 'rooster-tail' effect on the Apollo buggy shots of the dust whipped up behind it, indicates it was filmed on Earth, not on the Moon.
No, clearly that's not where you got 'dusty old Hasselblad' since the article doesn't say that, and the camera it does mention was an entirely different type.
There's a better picture here:
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Now you're just being histrionic to distract from your lie. Don't pretend that gender has anything to do with this, and don't you dare imply that I ever implied that it does. Don't get angry with someone else because you've trapped yourself in another lie.