Carl Joseph

Second hand score …

“See, this guy did something most of us could only dream of doing. He walked into a dingy antique mall in Kansas one day, and walked out with a real honest-to-gosh piece of American history.”

What a find. Walk into a second hand store, and come out with a genuine Gemini program space suit.

“It is most definitely the real deal, a suit that never went into space, but was used for high-altitude pressure tests during the Gemini program. There were around thirty of these suits made, and this is the only one that wasn’t destroyed or put in a museum somewhere.”

The full adventure and more photos can be found on the Positive Ape Index. Unfortunately, I don’t think we’ll ever score a find like that in an Aussie second hand store.