Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Hewlett Packard Corporation
- Summary
- This is an HP-41C pocket calculator, manufactured by Hewlett-Packard, that has flown on nine Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s. NASA purchased it from a local store in Houston, and installed special software on it for each mission. Mission critical computing was still done by the Shuttle on-board computers, but pocket calculators found many other uses in space. This calculator could have performed critical re-entry calculations if the main computers failed.
- This HP-41C was used by Astronaut Sally Ride and several other astronauts on a total of nine Shuttle missions.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Inventory Number
- A19890003000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- INSTRUMENTS-Computers, General Purpose
- Materials
- Plastic
- Synthetic Fiber Fabric
- Velcro
- Copper Alloy
- Ferrous Alloy
- Ink
- Adhesive
- Paint
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 14.6 × 7.3 × 3.3cm (5 3/4 × 2 7/8 × 1 5/16 in.)
- 3-D: 20.6 × 11.7 × 2.5cm (8 1/8 × 4 5/8 × 1 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_A19890003000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9e0f07d6e-f65f-44e1-b080-22f691ed9c5d
