Eleanor Foraker

Eleanor ("Ellie") Foraker (September 2, 1930 – December 8, 2011)[1][2] was an American seamstress who worked at the International Latex Corporation (ILC) and at NASA.

[1] She left the Playtex division of ILC Dover in 1964 and then worked on underground inflatable oil tanks and gas masks to aid the development of the A7L spacesuit for the Apollo 11 mission.

[1] She worked at ILC Dover for 43 years as a seamstress and later manager on cloth diaper covers sewing projects.

Foraker also taught, along with other seamstresses that worked in the ILC's Playtex division, NASA engineers how to sew and suggested improvements to the spacesuits.

[3] While no movie has yet been released, in 2013 Warner Bros. hired Richard Cordiner to write a script for film adaptation of Spacesuit.