Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Cross Creek
- ILC Space Systems
- Astronaut
- Richard H. Truly
- Summary
- Astronaut Richard H. Truly wore this in-flight suit as commander of the six-day STS-8 mission aboard Space Shuttle Challenger in August 1983. Except during launch and reentry, Shuttle astronauts wear ordinary clothing as they live and work inside the orbiter. NASA issues identical blue cotton-blend jackets, trousers, and shorts for their in-flight wardrobe. Crews of the earliest Shuttle missions wore standard dark-blue shirts with their own mission emblem sewn on the front; later crews wore shirts of various colors and designs.
- STS-8 was the first Shuttle mission to launch and land at night. It was Truly's second mission; he had previously flown as pilot on Columbia for the STS-2 mission in 1981. NASA transferred Truly's garments to the Museum soon after the STS-8 mission.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from NASA, Johnson Space Center
- Inventory Number
- A19830336000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Flight Clothing
- Materials
- cotton fabric, velcro, steel, plastic, leather, aluminum alloy
- Dimensions
- 3-D (lying flat with arms padded): 69.9 × 69.9 × 10.2cm (27 1/2 × 27 1/2 × 4 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_A19830336000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9dd7bcb43-514c-4b89-a6ac-f4293f65cd14
