Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Raytheon Corp.
- Summary
- The Display Keyboard (DSKY), manufactured by Raytheon, was the method by which Apollo astronauts communicated with the computers on board the Apollo Command and Lunar Modules. A Command module had two DSKYs: one on the main control panel and one in the lower navigation bay. The LM had one DSKY. The interface consisted of a simple numerical keyboard, a row of status lights, and a set of lighted numerical indicators. Astronauts instructed the computer by keying in numerical codes in a "verb - noun" sequence; e.g. "display velocity."
- This DSKY is one of several in the NASM collection, and represents the early, "Block I" design. It was never flown. NASA transferred this DSKY to the Museum in 1972.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Inventory Number
- A19720315000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- INSTRUMENTS-Navigational
- Materials
- Case: metal. Buttons and display: plastic. Display: glass
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 35.6 x 30.5 x 35.6cm (14 x 12 x 14 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_A19720315000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9aba4a54d-af11-407e-b699-3df747c8eda9
