In the latter case, vignettes of armies of men in spacesuit-like white protective clothing are especially unnerving.
In those early days, he recalls visiting a hospital where health staff in spacesuit-style protective clothing were passing a patient's food under the door.
People in spacesuits walked through Midtown Manhattan last week with envelopes in plastic bags, sealed inside other bags.
(Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in spacesuits, as Mission Specialist Ryan Stone and Mission Commander Matt Kowalski Ed Harriss, unseen and unnamed, as "Houston" down below).
Whatever bond was formed between this group during their years in spacesuits seems to be truly genuine.
"I became a specialist in spacesuits, too, and food," he recalled, "everything that went on a mission".
Men in spacesuits were assigned to release the first genetically engineered organisms into the wide world: bacteria sprayed on strawberries to protect them from frost.
At 10am UK time, two men in spacesuits clambered through an airlock and for the first time set foot on a sandy red surface strewn with boulders.
Black-and-white footage shows two lumbering men in spacesuits awkwardly trying to get a waist-high flagpole to stand up in the moon dust.
Otherwise the future may be as depicted in a cartoon that a delegate pinned on the conference noticeboard: forlorn figures in spacesuits, standing with placards reading "No Pollution" and "Green Space", while rockets blast off all around them.
— On the rim of a rock quarry in the blistering June heat, three people are huddled in spacesuits with metallic jet packs on their backs, worrying aloud about which jet pack is about to be turned on.
