Astronaut Pressure Glove in a Display Case

Apollo astronauts had their gloves made to measure from casts of their own hands. A pressurized glove is stiff, so even a small misfit means sore fingers after a few hours of work. This one rests on a stand in a museum case, with gray rubber fingertips and a blue ring that locked it to the sleeve. It makes a spacesuit glove jigsaw puzzle full of stitching and creased cream fabric. On the space station, long spacewalks have even cost some astronauts their fingernails.