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Detail of the lower portion of the suit.

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The boots shown here are the ones which were part of the spacesuit, and were the ones used when suited up through most of the mission. When performing a lunar EVA, the astronauts would don the more familiar lunar overboots. To save weight during ascent, the lunar overboots were jettisoned prior to the Lunar Module leaving the lunar surface