This artifact was used during the Gemini program to hold camera equipment up to the window of the spacecraft. Astronauts took numerous photographs of the Earth and of operations in which they were involved during ten, two-man Gemini missions in 1965-66. Under weightless conditions it could be hard to hold the camera steady. It is not known whether the artifact was used in a manned mission, or only for training. In 1971, NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center) in Houston, Texas, transferred this bracket to the Smithsonian as a part of collection of photographic equipment.