Sujet

Earth Path Indicator, Mercury 4, 1961. Creator: Honeywell.

Légende

The Mercury space capsule carried this device, designed by the Honeywell Corporation, which allowed the astronaut to see his orbital track and heading. For example, it indicated when the spacecraft was passing over a ground station or a landing site. The device was a simple globe, driven by a clockwork mechanism. Once in a stable orbit, the astronaut would wind up the clockwork, and set the position of a tiny scale model of the Mercury capsule, under which the globe would rotate. This specimen was flown aboard MA-4, an unmanned Mercury flight that preceeded the manned flights. Transferred from NASA to the Museum in 1972.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A88_487

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

60,2Mo (1,8Mo) / 47,5cm x 31,7cm / 5616 x 3744 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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