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Article: Cosmos couture: designer fashions stylish suits for space tourists.(Up Front)(Orbital Outfitters)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- December 18, 2006
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WHILE billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson battle to find a way to get people into space affordably, Rick Tumlinson wants to make sure they look good when they get there.
Tumlinson thinks the clunky, off-white spacesuits NASA uses leave a lot to be desired and should be a little more stylish. So the L.A. businessman has joined forces with Hollywood prop designer Chris Gilman, who won an Academy Award for a suit designed for a movie (and whose Global Effects costume and prop design firm was profiled by the Business Journal last year).
The duo have started Orbital Outfitters to develop and manufacture the first generation of space suits ...