Object Details
- Summary
- This star chart was used to train the Gemini 7 astronauts, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, for their fourteen-day mission in Earth orbit in December 1965. Project Gemini was the second U.S. human spaceflight program. Borman and Lovell had as a primary mission testing the medical effects of surviving two weeks in weightlessness, the maximum length expected for a later mission to the Moon. But Gemini 7 also acted as the target for Gemini 6A in carrying out the first rendezvous in space. During their stay in orbit, the astronauts used star charts such as this one to find particular stars for navigation or scientific experiments.
- NASA Johnson Space Center (then called the Manned Spacecraft Center) in Houston, Texas, gave this chart to the Smithsonian before 1971.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the NASA Johnson Space Center
- Inventory Number
- A19870208000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Test
- Materials
- Plastic, metal
- Dimensions
- 2-D - Unframed (H x W): 25cm (9 13/16 in. dia.)
- 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_A19870208000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv969cf676d-7ea0-408c-8d5f-8692c4daac70
