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View of the lower portion of the suit. The left thigh appears to have a pouch to store things during the EVA. The pouch must be removable, as the suit's biomedical injection patch is located in this area. The right thigh has a flap covering the suit's pressure relief valve and Urine Collection and Transfer Assembly connector. Note the boots shown here, which were an integral part of the spacesuit. The more familiar (and famous) lunar overboots were worn over these boots and used only when performing a lunar EVA. To save weight during ascent, the lunar overboots were normally jettisoned prior to the Lunar Module leaving the lunar surface (although on Apollo 17 Cernan decided to bring his back to Earth, even though the mission plan did call for jettisoning them). | ||||
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