Object Details
- Manufacturer
- American Optical Co.
- Summary
- Astronauts have to be prepared to make emergency landings in jungles, deserts or oceans. These sunglases are part of the survival kit carried in Gemini IV, which made a historic four-day mission, June 3-6, 1965, with astronauts Jim McDivitt and Edward White. On this mission, White became the first American to make a "spacewalk."
- Originally installed in command pilot McDivitt's ejection seat, the survival kit came to the Smithsonian along with the spacecraft in 1967.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from NASA
- Inventory Number
- A19791384001
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Survival
- Materials
- plastic, metal
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 13.3 x 12.7 x 3.8cm (5 1/4 x 5 x 1 1/2 in.)
- 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_A19791384001
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9e66c93e7-a66c-42b0-a472-a06023771bba
