Object Details
- Manufacturer
- ILC Industries Inc.
- Summary
- This is a right glove of a pair belonging to an AX1-L spacesuit used during the Apollo program. ILC Industries manufactured these gloves in 1963 as an Apollo prototype. The AX1-L's design consisted of hard-angled suit segments rotating on aluminized nylon pressure sealing bearings to provide low-torque mobility.
- AX1-L gloves were leather with sewn-on restraint webbing to bring about a more conformal shape and share the pressure load. The glove fit tightly at the wrist for limited wrist mobility and required unzipping a zipper to don or remove the glove. The gloves were attached to the suit with anodized aluminum disconnect rings-- always red for the right glove and blue for the left. The gloves were attached to the suit with anodized aluminum disconnect rings-- always red for the right glove.
- NASA transferred the glove to the Museum in 1973.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Inventory Number
- A19730841003
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Handwear
- Materials
- Anodized Aluminum, Aluminized Nylon, Leather, Steel, Rubber/Neoprene, Adhesive
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 21.6 x 12.7 x 10.2cm (8 1/2 x 5 x 4 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- Destination Moon
- Title
- Glove, Right, AX1-L, Apollo, Prototype
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19730841003
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv961faae6e-e0f5-465b-9b75-084354d162b8
