Object Details
- Summary
- This pin celebrated the May 5, 1961 suborbital flight of Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut in space. Shepard's 15-minute 22-second flight aboard a Mercury-Redstone marked the first successful human spaceflight for NASA's Project Mercury. Timothy Connelly donated this pin and ribbon collected by his father, an avid button collector, to the National Collection in 2005.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Timothy Connelly
- Inventory Number
- A20050480000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-Events
- Materials
- Steel
- Plastic
- Synthetic Fabric
- Copper Alloy
- Ink
- Dimensions
- 3-D (Button): 11.4 × 4.4 × 0.6cm (4 1/2 × 1 3/4 × 1/4 in.)
- Storage: 17.8 × 8.9 × 3.8cm (7 × 3 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20050480000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9de1577b6-c476-4cdd-80be-658b717e5d8a
