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The subsequent Apollo 15-17 lunar missions,<ref name="us3">{{cite book |title= US Spacesuits |author1=Kenneth S. Thomas |author2=Harold J. McMann |year= 2006 |publisher= Praxis Publishing Ltd. |___location= Chichester, UK |isbn= 0-387-27919-9 | pages = 430–431 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=cdO2-4szcdgC }}</ref> Skylab,<ref name="us4">{{cite book |title= US Spacesuits |author1=Kenneth S. Thomas |author2=Harold J. McMann |year= 2006 |publisher= Praxis Publishing Ltd. |___location= Chichester, UK |isbn= 0-387-27919-9 | pages = 432–433 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=cdO2-4szcdgC }}</ref> and [[Apollo–Soyuz]] used A7LB pressure suits.<ref name="us5">{{cite book |title= US Spacesuits |author1=Kenneth S. Thomas |author2=Harold J. McMann |year= 2006 |publisher= Praxis Publishing Ltd. |___location= Chichester, UK |isbn= 0-387-27919-9 | pages = 434–435 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=cdO2-4szcdgC }}</ref> Additionally, these pressure suits varied by program usage. For the Skylab EMU, NASA elected to use an umbilical life support system named the Astronaut Life Support Assembly.

The suits used during lunar EVAs had a weight of about {{cvt|81.6|kg|lbs}}, and under lunar surface gravity a weight ofequivalent aboutto {{cvt|13.6|kg|lbs}}.<ref name="Kluger 2018 z081">{{cite web | last=Kluger | first=Jeffrey | title=How Neil Armstrong's Moon Spacesuit Was Preserved for Centuries to Come | website=Time | date=October 12, 2018 | url=https://time.com/5422609/armstrong-spacesuit-smithsonian/ | access-date=November 29, 2023}}</ref> The low surface gravity and suit pressurization put considerable constraints on its use.<ref name="Nast 2013 v237">{{cite web | title=How Do You Pick Up Something on the Moon? | website=WIRED | date=December 9, 2013 | url=https://www.wired.com/2013/12/how-do-you-pick-up-something-on-the-moon/ | access-date=November 29, 2023}}</ref>

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