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Images of NAsA astronaut David R. Scott performing a spacewalk during Apollo 9 show a red helmet.

When did NASA's use of red-colored helmets begin, and when did it end, and was there a special name for these?

Cropped from AS09-20-3064 Apollo 9, David R. Scott spacewalk (found in this answer):

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    $\begingroup$ I was in the process of writing a question about where this picture was taken from, but sadly the answer to that (not the answer to your question) is on wikipedia. $\endgroup$ – Organic Marble Nov 20 '19 at 0:07
  • $\begingroup$ @OrganicMarble I've since deleted the Wikipedia reference from that post and replaced it with the archive.org link. Since it was within five minutes, the Wikipedia link is not present in the edit review, and now I don't remember the link. $\endgroup$ – uhoh Nov 20 '19 at 0:12
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    $\begingroup$ No problem! I was just reading about the mission on Wikipedia, I didn't follow a link. $\endgroup$ – Organic Marble Nov 20 '19 at 0:12
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Every time, apparently.

But mostly they had a white thermal cover over them.

This is Neal Armstrong's Apollo 11 helmet from here.

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Apparently credible but unsourced discussion here: http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum14/HTML/000900.html (see "Matt T"'s comments).

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