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Astronautics

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Apollo 15 photograph

 Collection
Accession: 1996-223
Abstract:

Apollo 15 was the fourth manned lunar landing mission. The three-man crew was made up of David R. Scott (1932-), Alfred J. Worden (1932-), and James B. Irwin (1930-1991). The E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont company. DuPont materials were used in whole or in part for twenty of the twenty-one layers of the Apollo spacesuits. This is a NASA photograph of James Irwin on moon, August 1, 1971. Attached are strips naming the twenty-one different layers of his space suit.

Dates: 1971

Space, 1959-1977

 Series
Accession: 1995-220Identifier: 1995-220-XVII.
Scope and Contents:

The Space series contains images of projects related to space exploration and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The series is organized into eleven subseries by project: Apollo; Coherent Synthetic Aperture Radar (CSAR); Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS); Extravehicular Communications System (EVCS); Gemini; Lunar; NASA; Nestor; Saturn/Apollo; Skylab; and TIROS. The materials date from 1959 to 1977.

Dates: 1959-1977