Camera, Stage Separation, Case and Parachute, Saturn I
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Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Pacific Optical
- Summary
- This Pacific Optical camera, recovered in the ocean after the SA-5 launch in 1964, recorded the first-ever separation of the Saturn I rocket's first stage from its second stage. After the camera capsule ejected from the rocket, small fins stabilized the capsule, then the parachute opened and guided it to a landing downrange from Cape Canaveral. The development of rockets that could send humans to the Moon began with the Saturn I, several of which were launched in the early 1960s.
- NASA transferred this camera capsule to the Museum in 1970.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from NASA
- Inventory Number
- A19700275000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Photographic
- Materials
- Fabric parachute, plastic lens cap, glass lens and lens cover, aluminum capsule
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 30.5 x 83.8 x 31.8cm, 20.4kg (12 x 33 x 12 1/2 in., 45lb.)
- 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
- Hangar
- James S. McDonnell Space Hangar
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19700275000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9643ff78c-bcec-4600-98b5-ad1c3d2e6ee4
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