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Topic: British Museum (UK): Alan Shepard's "nappy"?
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moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 08-19-2014 03:31 PM
   
I've just read in a compendium of trivia that the Alan Shepard's nappy resides in the British Museum. I assume this will be from his Mercury flight.Two things — is it true? If so, how did it come to be in the British Museum? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-19-2014 03:44 PM
I don't know if it is still or ever was on display at the British Museum, but based on this photo, it would appear to be Alan Shepard's Apollo Fecal Containment Subsystem is on loan to some museum from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. This fecal collection subsystem was assigned to astronaut Alan Shepard, though it is unknown if it was flown on the Apollo 14 mission.This subsystem was part of the personal hygiene equipment developed for the astronauts, to be worn while wearing a spacesuit during the Apollo era, and was was worn with a collection device underneath. It was transferred to the National Air and Space Museum from NASA in 1972. The 2003 website, 5 Days in London, also notes that the Science Museum has (or had at the time) the Urine Collection and Transfer Assembly that Shepard wore on Apollo 14. |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 08-20-2014 12:09 PM
To answer my own question, I've had this reply from the Science Museum - This object was loaned to the Science Museum in 1975. It has since been returned to the original lender in 2011; the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. | |
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