Adam Savage’s Mercury Spacesuit Replica is absolutely gorgeous

I am not usually a covetous individual , but Adam Savage ’s painstakingly accurate replication of the blue flight jacket crown fall apart by NASA ’s Apollo astronauts and the iconic , silver , full - body spacesuit used during the Agency ’s Mercury missions literally have me cook greedy - hands at my computer screen .

Savage had his Mercury force per unit area courtship tradition orient from PVC leather , with machined aluminum neck and wrist ring for the helmet and gloves , and the result is really , really beautiful :

But for as unbelievable looking as the spacesuit is , the flight of steps jacket is perhaps the more technically telling patch of the two , insofar as it “ matches in every stitch snap zipper and detail the original apollo jackets , ” articulate Savage , “ even down to the orange lining ” :