Moon Suit

Du Pont chemist Alfred Jennings '33 developed a rubber-coated fabric that protected the astronauts in the first moon landing. A grateful NASA presented Jennings with its Apollo Achievement Award in 1969.

Responsibility for building the gates fell to American Bridge Company engineer Otis Ellis Hovey 1885, Th '89 The canal's locks actually worked better than expected, and Hovey's emergency gates were eventually removed. But some of his other achievements lasted longer. His books Movable Bridges and Steel Dams were engineering bibles for many years. And his service as

Jennings's rubber-coated fabric gave the moon men some space.