The chair is covered with luxurious, brown, durable Renu leather, with the look and feel of top grain leather. Since it is likely that the individual will be spending a substantial amount of time in the chair, it’s critical that the chair be comfortable and sturdy.
It was used by NASA for Mercury, Gemini and the famous Apollo moon flight as well as in the Tom Hanks movie Apollo 13. An inventor who had served in the Air Force developed a chair based upon the science of kinetics, calling it the rocket recliner. It was NASA and the space program, however, that shot recliners into American living rooms. Americans took the French concept and invented the ancestor of the recliner we love today in 1928.