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MAKING THENEWS Cable comes home

Fifty years after an Apollo space walk, a flat cable harness has returned to Cicoil. The Bio-Harness assembly was built by Cicoil for the 1969 Apollo 9 space flight, and has been bought back by the company in a NASA Apollo space program auction. The harness is said to look in excellent condition, especially considering its age and use. The 26 inch long electrical biomedical harness was worn by Commander Jim McDivitt during the ten day Apollo 9 flight. The harness was designed to be worn underneath an intra-vehicular constant wear garment when inside the spacecraft, and under the extra-vehicular pressure suit during spacewalk activities. The assembly enabled continuous monitoring of vital signs, such as blood pressure, respiration, body temperature and pulse rate for each astronaut during flight, orbit and spacewalk operations.

All three astronauts on the flight, Commander McDivitt, and astronauts David Scott and Rusty Schweickart, utilized Cicoil bio-harnesses. Cicoil’s flat cable harnesses were also used by astronauts on the Mercury-Atlas 6, Gemini 4, and Apollo 11 spacemissions.

Cicoil’s space cable flying high for Apollo 9

Cicoil cable assemblies for the Mercury and Gemini space missions, Skylab, Mercury Voyager, Space Shuttle, Tri-Athlete lunar vehicle, the Mars Rover, and for space transport rockets and satellites. has manufactured

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