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Handling Fixture, DSKY, Apollo Guidance Computer

Display Status:
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum, it is either on loan or in storage.

Handling Fixture, DSKY, Apollo Guidance Computer

 

  • Summary

Manufacturer:   Raytheon Corp.

Country of Origin: United States of America

Dimensions:
3-D Test: 30.5 x 20.3 x 25.4cm (12 x 8 x 10 in.)

Materials:
Metal frame, wire cage

This device, made by Raytheon, was attached to an Apollo Guidance Computer Display Keyboard (DSKY), to allow for safe handling of the DSKY it when it was removed from the spacecraft. The fixture was removed before flight.

NASA transferred this to the Museum in 1977.

Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration


Inventory number: A19770219001