On this day back in 1973, U.S. Patent No. 3,751,727 issued on a Space Suit. This suit was “designed for astronauts in the Apollo Space Program.”

This patent represents the successful solution of just a few of the thousands of technical problems that had to be solved to meet President Kennedy’s May 25, 1961, challenge that this nation “commit itself to achieving the goal, before his decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” Thousands of American s solved thousands of technical problems, only a few of which have been documented in the patent collection.