Pressure Suit, AX-3
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Object Details
- Manufacturer
- NASA Ames Research Center
- Designer
- William Elkins
- Summary
- The AX-3 was designed at NASA Ames Research Center in the middle 1970s. A prototype, it was created to prove that a highly mobile suit requiring little effort to operate could use an internal operating pressure of 8 pounds per square inch. It is made of a single wall laminated fabric with sealed bearings and a double-walled fiberglass upper torso. Its modular construction allowed for size adjustment and testing of different mobility joint systems.
- Transferred from NASA - Ames Research Center to NASM in 2004.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from NASA, Ames Research Center.
- Inventory Number
- A20040265000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Pressure Suits
- Materials
- Torso/Brief: Fiberglass
- Remaining: Fabric, ruber/neoprene, anodized aluminium
- Dimensions
- Approximate: 6 ft. tall x 2 ft. 4 in. wide x 1 ft. 3 in. deep (182.88 x 71.12 x 38.1cm)
- 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_A20040265000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9698deb44-2c0a-4361-a88b-03eca0ee3f64
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