Talk:Mercury spacesuit

Early posts
The photo shown at the top of this page & labeled "Mercury vacuum suit" is instead an early & aluminized version of the Gemini suit.69.252.244.195 19:00, 9 April 2007 (UTC)Seth Colby

The National Geographic picture (or similar picture in the public domain) of Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather sitting in the Strato-Lab High-V gondola before their 1961 balloon flight would show them bundled in the Mark IV suit without modifications applied by NASA for the Mercury flights.Catrachos (talk) 14:50, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

I have my own picture but I'm not sure what it was used on. --Craigboy (talk) 11:50, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Okay do to the lack of activity on this page I'll probably go ahead and add this picture to the article --Craigboy (talk) 06:08, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

I'll search around and try to find some pictures of the suit while it was being used on the stratolab project. --Craigboy (talk) 22:55, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Navy Mark V
Is "Navy Mark V" supposed to redirect here? It was my understanding that they are not the same suits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.165.95.77 (talk) 01:17, 3 October 2013 (UTC)


 * This appears to be a mistake left over from the original creation of this page, which apparently was created as "Mark V" and then moved to "Mark IV". Page moves will automatically create these redirects. It should be removed to eliminate confusion. JustinTime55 (talk) 21:07, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Proposed name change
I'm a little surprised this issue hasn't been discussed before, but how does this topic rate an exemption from the WP:COMMONNAME policy? Most people have absolutely no idea what a "Navy Mark IV" was, compared to the multitudes who have heard of the Mercury space suit. This is analogous to Gemini space suit as opposed to "Clark G3C". There is no NPOV issue with the common name; I can only assume it's this way from benign neglect, as I can see no logical argument based on the policy.

The only issue might be technical; currently "Mercury space suit" redirects to Navy Mark IV, but it should be the other way around. What is the correct way to handle this situation (to preserve the edit history)? JustinTime55 (talk) 20:45, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Info
U.S. Spacesuit Development and Qualification for Project Mercury - Lots of good info.--Craigboy (talk) 23:04, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

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Neck dam
Was a neck dam used on the earliest suits, as seems likely if they were used by Navy pilots? Please ping with reply. &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 10:12, 18 March 2023 (UTC)