Object Details
- Summary
- Shown here is a rocket fuel handler's suit. Given that the insert on the back of the garment specifies that special care must be taken to avoid contact with both fuel and oxidizer, it is likely that the time period of its use dates from the 1950s or 1960s. During that time, all large-scale launch vehicles used liquid propellants, typically nitric acid and aniline, kerosene and liquid oxygen, and by the late 1960s, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. In these cases, fueling had to be completed just prior to launch. Super cooled temperatures and volatility--especially in the case of liquid hydrogen--required careful handling.
- The manufacturer and donor are presently unknown.
- Credit Line
- Found in collection. Donor unknown at this time. Found on NASM premises.
- Inventory Number
- A20020257000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Miscellaneous
- Materials
- Synthetic Rubber
- Plastic
- Aluminum
- Non-Ferrous Metal
- Elastic
- Dimensions
- Height, 57 inches; width, 20 inches; width, with sleeves stretched out, 55 inches; width, each leg, 12 inches; width, each arm, 4.5 inches
- 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_A20020257000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9b7b4266b-70c4-4dd4-ae49-7b30c8a67e90
