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Kit, First Aid, Mercury, Glenn, Friendship 7

5 pp

Overall: 9 1/2in. x 2 1/4in. x 1in. (24.1 x 5.7 x 2.5cm)

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Kit, Medical, Douglas World Cruiser, Lt. Lowell Smith (REPLICA)

11 pp

3-D (Lid Closed): 38 × 21.2 × 9.2cm (1 ft. 2 15/16 in. × 8 3/8 in. × 3 5/8 in.)

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Knife, Astronaut Survival

2 pp

This is a duplicate of a hand-wrought survival knife made by the Randall Knives Co., a maker of speciality knives of all types. One was carried as equipment on Alan Shepard's "Freedom 7" suborbital Mercury mission on May 5, 1961. On this flight, Shepard became the first American, and second human (after Yuri Gagarin), in space. The original survival knife was lost when the hatch was jettisoned aft

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Kollsman Instrument Company

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Korea and Vietnam Aviation

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Kreider-Reisner

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Kreider-Reisner C-4C Challenger

The C-4C airplane in the museum's collection is manufacturer's serial number 384 and registration number N30M. It was manufactured in August 1929 which was several months after Fairchild acquired the Kreider-Reisner Company, however the data plate reflects the Kreider-Reisner C-4C Challenger designation, rather than the subsequent Fairchild KR-34 label. The airplane had 15 registered owners prior

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Kusaba Keiki Seisakusho

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L. N. Schwien Engineering Co.

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La Société Hispano-Suiza

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Lamp, UV Corona

7 pp

This is a BS-212 Anton counter shell converted to a UV corona lamp. This was used during the 1950's for field checking the sensitivity of UV detectors used in Naval Research Laboratory programs. This artifact is part of a collection of high energy detectors from the Naval Research Laboratory (see A19880001000-19880017000).

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Lander, Mars, Viking, Proof Test Article

9 pp

The failure to find any evidence of life on Mars, past or present, devastated the optimism of scientists involved in the search for extraterrestrial life. Collectively, these missions led to the development of two essential reactions. The first was an abandonment by most scientists that life might exist elsewhere in the Solar System. Planetary scientist and JPL director Bruce Murray complained at

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