As the text on the shades explains, “Shields Up! Whenever solar radiation (sunlight) threatens the starship Enterprise, these shades deploy.” Credit: National Air and Space Museum 

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January 11, 2018

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Eric Long

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NASM2018-00082

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Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

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