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Topic: Help ID'ing shuttle and cosmonaut hardware
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stsmithva
Member Posts: 1938
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 07-02-2018 05:33 PM
   
And now, some space shuttle-era hardware I'd appreciate help identifying, as well as a couple of cosmonaut items. Since I don't know what most of these are, I didn't want to guess when presenting them, so as I took the pictures, I put little numbered labels in view. When you comment, please write something like "#3 is a..." Thank you so much for any information you could provide about what something is and how it was used!#1: As labeled by Phill Parker years ago, a "space shuttle engine ring." About 15" in diameter, with some serial numbers.  
#2: A Thing That Unscrews On Both Ends. For some reason I'm thinking shuttle payload door.  |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 1938
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 07-02-2018 05:34 PM
#3: I posted about this one years ago but people weren't sure about it. In the last year or so there was an item in an auction that was almost identical and was fully described... and now I can't find it. Any idea where/when that was?  #4: Payload bay door padding? Or something for the cabin?  #5: I got these straps at a Goldberg auction in 2012. They were apparently used by cosmonaut Gennadi Strekalov aboard MIR. He launched in Soyuz TM-21 (3/14/95) and returned via Atlantis STS-71 (7/7/95). I'd like to know what such straps would have been used for on an EVA, and why they are asymmetrical.  
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stsmithva
Member Posts: 1938
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 07-02-2018 05:34 PM
#6: A white bag. I don't remember where I got it or what was said about it - I must be more careful about provenance. Looks like there were two rectangles were labels were supposed to go, but didn't. The only identifying number/label/insignia is on the zipper.  
Very shiny buckles!  No number on this one, but it's pretty straightforward. A good ten years ago on eBay I got this patch on a display purporting to show that it was flown on STS-61C, just two weeks before the Challenger disaster. The signature of astronaut Bob Cenker seems hand-signed (in ink that has faded), but oddly the letter, the pictures - everything - are printed on one large piece of paper. It seems like a 1980s level of technology job. Has anyone seen anything like this before?  
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space1
Member Posts: 857
From: Danville, Ohio
Registered: Dec 2002
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posted 07-02-2018 05:45 PM
I believe #4 is a padded divider for a storage pouch.I have seen payload bay door linkages, and they are much cleaner looking and leaner than #2. Are you sure this is from the Space Shuttle? Usually aerospace "rod ends" have a spherical bearing instead of the simple hole. And to me the numbers don't look like anything related to the shuttle. |
Jim Behling
Member Posts: 1484
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 07-02-2018 07:29 PM
#4 is a divider for soft stowage bags. #6 is a penguin suit bag. |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 1938
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 07-02-2018 07:33 PM
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Originally posted by Jim Behling:
#6 is a penguin suit bag
Definitely! Thank you! |
Greggy_D
Member Posts: 977
From: Michigan
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 07-02-2018 07:40 PM
The 61C presentation is definitely odd, especially given that everything is printed on one sheet. I've never seen this format from that particular era. |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 1938
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 03-28-2020 10:58 AM
About two years later, I just thought I'd bump this post up to see if anyone who didn't see it the first time might be able to help identify any of these items (except for #4 and #6). |
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