User:Noracrentiss/sandbox/Eleanor Foraker

Career
She contributed to many projects at ILC, including gas masks, underground inflatable oil tanks and space suits

She worked at ILC Dover for 43 years before retiring.

Space suit work
Death

8 December 2011.

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https://www.airspacemag.com/airspacemag/twenty-people-who-made-apollo-happen-180972374/

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https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/newszapde/name/eleanor-foraker-obituary?id=20018429

Text from above newspaper)

"Eleanor was born on September 2, 1930 in Kenton, to William and Elsie Conley. Eleanor retired from ILC Dover after 43 years. She was involved in the early years of the space program. She contributed to many projects at ILC, including gas masks, underground inflatable oil tanks and space suits. She was truly dedicated to the making of space suits. Eleanor was a gifted sewer, manager and had a get it done attitude. The last project Eleanor was involved in was the Pathfinder Mission. She contributed to the making of the landing bag that protected the Sojourner Rover that explored Mars. She enjoyed bowling, sewing and cooking.

Eleanor was very dedicated to her grandchild and great-grandchildren. She took them shopping, played games and cooked their favorite foods. In recent years she especially enjoyed baking cookies, cakes and pies with great-granddaughter Jami. Eleanor was predeceased by sisters, Margaret Robinson, Catherine Thompson and Marion Reed; brothers, John (Billy) Conley and Thomas Conley; and son, Thomas Edward Hill. She is survived by a daughter, Sandra Nuss and husband James; a granddaughter, Britt Robertson and her significant other Ronnie Mounts with whom she lived; and great-grandchildren, Kagan Nuss, Chase Mounts and Jami Mounts. She is also survived by a sister-in law, Doris Conley of Easton, Md. and several nieces and nephews.

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"Contractor
Hamilton Standard

Manufacturer
ILC Industries Inc."

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Nicholas de Monchaux:

"Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo"


 * ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 026201520X
 * ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262015202 ________________________________

"US Spacesuits" Kenneth S Thomas

ISBN 9781441995650

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01FIYK6G0

Thomas calls De Monchaux's book "Fiction" in an excoriating review

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https://www.motionpictures.org/2013/09/bras-in-space-the-incredible-true-story-behind-upcoming-film-spacesuit/

by Ayrey, Bill (Hardback book)
Nothing about Eleanor here but some good photos of the workshop

https://exhibitions.fitnyc.edu/expedition/designing-spacesuits/#more-108