American special engineering development and manufacturing company
ILC Dover
Founded
1947
Headquarters
Frederica, Delaware[1]
Website
www.ilcdover.com
EMU suit worn during EVA on the International Space Station
ILC Dover, LP is a special engineering development and manufacturing company, globally headquartered in Frederica, Delaware. ILC Dover specializes in the use of high-performance flexible materials, serving the aerospace, personal protection, and pharmaceutical industries.
Best known for making space suits for NASA, ILC Dover outfitted every United States astronaut in the Apollo program, including the twelve that walked on the Moon. ILC also designed and manufactured the Space Suit Assembly portion of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) developed by Collins Aerospace, worn by astronauts during performance of extra-vehicular activity (EVA) on Space Shuttle missions and on the International Space Station.
Other ILC Dover products include the airbag landing devices for Mars Pathfinder and Mars Exploration Rover (MER) missions; lighter-than-air vehicles, including airships, aerostats, and zeppelins; chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) masks and hood systems; and flexible powder-containment solutions for the pharmaceutical industry.[citation needed]
ILCDover, LP is a special engineering development and manufacturing company, globally headquartered in Frederica, Delaware. ILCDover specializes in the...
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The ILCDover seamstresses were a group of women who worked for the International Latex Corporation (now ILCDover). The seamstresses played a key role...
Sierra Space and ILCDover announced their partnership for developing of inflatable space station modules and spacesuits. ILCDover will be the exclusive...
and create space suits for multiple NASA space missions as part of the ILCDover seamstresses team. She constructed the boots that Neil Armstrong wore...
the prime contractor for the 420K aerostats, the envelopes are built by ILCDover. As of 2004, all TARS sites except one were equipped with the 420K aerostats...
architecture. The I-Suit is a space suit prototype also constructed by ILCDover, which incorporates several design improvements over the EMU, including...
descent at about 1,500 m (4,900 ft) altitude. The airbags, manufactured by ILCDover, are deployed by filling with a mixture of compressed nitrogen and oxygen...
ILCDover To Build Next-gen Spacesuit". Space News. 26 April 2013. Retrieved 28 January 2023. "NASA Awards Z-2 Spacesuit Contract To ILCDover". ILC Dover...
Extravehicular Mobility Unit (spacesuit) designed and manufactured by ILCDover and was the fabric used for all of the airbag landings on Mars: Mars Pathfinder...
positive pressure totally encapsulating protective suit, manufactured by ILCDover. It is currently used by Public Health Canada, Boston University, USAMRIID...
the Block I spacecraft, and with a design competition underway between ILCDover, Hamilton Standard (later Hamilton Sunstrand), and David Clark for a new...
International Latex Corporation (ILC) and was involved in NASA's space program. She left the Playtex division of ILCDover in 1964 and worked on underground...
the 4th company after the David Clark Company, Hamilton Sundstrand, and ILCDover (and, before 1964, B.F. Goodrich) to produce life-support hardware, as...
expected to have landed on Mars; at sea-level, air pressure is 14 PSI; ILCDover in Newark, Delaware has made all NASA spacesuits since the late 1960s;...
suitably equipped canteen lids or an adapter for other containers. In 1983, ILCDover came out with the first, heavily influenced by the M17 mask, prototype...
refreshing to see a glove that remains inflated." In the late 1970s, ILCDover, LP, developed a special garment, the Demilitarization Protective Ensemble...
X-15 suit. Since then, NASA has used either the David Clark Company, ILCDover, Hamilton Sundstrand, or Oceaneering International for all pressure and...
subcontractors included Warwick Mills (fabric engineering and development), ILCDover (specialised engineering development and manufacturing services), Textron...
survival outside the habitat. The suggested supplier of the suits was ILCDover. The study was stated to be finished late summer 2013; Mars One released...
swimwear, and baby pants. ILC moved to Dover, Delaware, in 1939, making it the first large, non-agricultural business in the city. ILC did not produce apparel...
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