GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) – A small textile community in South Carolina’s Upstate is stitched into the history of space exploration.
In Slater, an unincorporated mill village in Greenville County, the Slater Mill produced a crucial component used in Apollo-era spacesuits: beta cloth, a heat-resistant material designed to help protect astronauts.
“Slater Mill, here in Slater, South Carolina, was the mill that went to the moon,” said Zachary Deuerling, manager of the Slater Hall Community Center…