Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Naval Air Rework Facility
- Summary
- On July 24, 1969, at the end of its historic Moon landing mission, the Apollo 11 command module Columbia splashed down in the Pacific, about 24 kilometers (15 miles) from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. Navy swimmers jumped from a recovery helicopter into the water near the command module to stabilize it. They attached and inflated around it a custom-made flotation collar. To the flotation collar they fastened a large, seven-person raft. The astronauts donned special Biological Isolation Garments and then emerged from the spacecraft and climbed onto the raft in preparation for their transfer to the Mobile Quarantine Facility on the Hornet.
- This collar attached to the "egress trainer" command module is the actual unit deployed during the recovery of Apollo 11. It was transferred from NASA to the Smithsonian in 1977.
- Alternate Name
- Apollo 11 Flotation Collar
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center.
- Inventory Number
- A19780202000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Mission Support
- Materials
- Overall: Rubber, stainless steel snaps, nylon webbing, rubber covered textile, steel cables, nylon rope
- Dimensions
- Deflated: 2ft 4in. width x 36ft length (71.12 x 1097.28cm)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Exhibit Station
- Human Spaceflight
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19780202000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv97f3079a4-5c8b-427a-96a3-6c585394e4d9
