Pressure Suit Glove, Right, Mark IV
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Object Details
- Manufacturer
- B. F. Goodrich Co.
- Summary
- This is the right glove for a United States Navy Mark IV pressure suit like the ones that Navy pilots used in the 1950s and 1960s. B. F. Goodrich manufactured the suit and supplied copies to NASA when the space agency was preparing to launch humans into space. NASA used modified Mark IVs as spacesuits for the first Mercury astronauts. It is unclear whether NASA performed tests on this particular suit or used it only for evaluation. We do not know if the suit came with its own helmet, or if NASA used other helmets interchangeably with this suit.
- NASA transferred the suit to the museum after there was no longer a use for the suit in the program.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Inventory Number
- A19710782002
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Handwear
- Materials
- Wrist ring - Aluminum
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 27.9 x 11.4 x 10.2cm (11 x 4 1/2 x 4 in.)
- 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_A19710782002
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv99cbd0251-4623-4de7-a715-9d1089d54205
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