Keyboard, Display (DSKY), Apollo
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, identical 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 specimen was most likely not flown but used for tests. NASA transferred this DSKY to the Museum in 1972.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Inventory Number
- A19720317000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- INSTRUMENTS-Navigational
- Materials
- Aluminum
- Copper Alloy
- Steel
- Coating
- Rubber
- Glass
- Paper
- HAZMAT: Cadmium Plating
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 17.1 × 20.6 × 20.3cm, 7.8kg (6 3/4 × 8 1/8 × 8 in., 17.2lb.)
- 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_A19720317000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv900226c77-35d2-4d3e-9cca-dfa74074e7b0
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