Binoculars, Friendship 7
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Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Hensoldt-Wetzlar
- Summary
- Astronaut John Glenn Jr. carried these binoculars, manufactured by Hensoldt-Wetzlar, into space during the during the flight of Friendship 7, the first U.S. orbital flight carrying a human on February 20, 1962.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from NASA
- Inventory Number
- A19670199000
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Miscellaneous
- Materials
- Body: Metal, plastic
- Lenses: Glass
- Other: Velcro
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 11 × 7.5 × 4.6cm (4 5/16 × 2 15/16 × 1 13/16 in.)
- Country of Origin
- Germany
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19670199000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv908238acb-2fa3-43f1-90df-caf0069ddd20
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