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Old 02-19-2007, 10:25 PM   #2
Condoluminum
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Yup..

There are threads here in archives on subject. Search on woords "NASA" and "Astronaut" and "Apollo" and you'll find pictures and history....

Short Version: Airstream made several as quarantine chambers, kept on carriers with positive air pressure. One for sure resides now in new annex of Smithsonian Air and Space Museum near Dulles in Virginia. Trivia: Sits under hanging record-setting gliders designed and built by Willaim Hawley Bowlus, who worrked on Spirit of St. Louis, and designed Bowlus and original Airstream aluminum trailers. Wally took tooling after Bowlus bankruptcy and modified to make first Clipper in 1936...
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