Nicholas de Monchaux on the Planetary Radio
Professor and former Director of BCNM Nicholas de Monchaux was featured on the 'Reflections of Humanity in a Spacesuit for Moonwalkers' episode of Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science. De Monchaux discussed his book, Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, with host Mat Kaplan.
From the interview:
I think what what I brought to the history of the space suit was determination to examine it not just as a technological artifact but as a social and cultural artifact as well. Of course all technology is in its own way a cultural artifact, too, but we tend to separate technology and see it as the home to an engineering priesthood and something that doesn't have a lot of ideas or culture embedded in it. But it's deeply embedded with ideas and culture as I tried to show in the in the book and in the structure structure of the book as well.
Listen to the podcast here.