BLDG posted a great interview with all around interesting guy Nicholas de Monchaux regarding his new book Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo. His own words explaining the origins of the book pretty much sum up why you should be intrigued to read it:

One is very much a situation where the chapters alternate between a focus on the object itself and its astonishing history—being made by Playtex, who was an underdog in the whole suit-design process, and that suit’s hand-crafted nature, etc.—and the other is an equally layered but very outward-looking narrative, from the vacuum of outer space to early ideas of computing, simulation, the body, cybernetic theories of urbanism, etc. etc.

Just as the structure of the spacesuit allowed many different approaches to be hybridized, from girdle-making to military-industrial engineering, so too did the structure of the book allow these complex internal and external narratives to be bound together into a single volume.

It's a long interview so you may want to mark for Instapaper reading at your convenience but it's a good one.

via Paul Gerhardt