Purdue Items Among ‘Astronaut Wall of Fame’
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowPurdue University is providing a number of items that will be featured as part of the "Indiana Astronaut Wall of Fame" portion of the "Beyond Spaceship Earth" exhibit at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Among the items are a U.S. flag flown aboard the Gemini 8 mission with Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan’s selection letter for astronaut training.
The artifacts are being loaned to the exhibit by the Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives in the Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center and Purdue University Libraries. The other items on loan include:
- Janet Voss’ report card
- Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom’s 1960 appointment calendar
- Slide rules used by Richard Covey and Guy Gardner
- Mark Brown’s "Jet Propulsion for Aerospace Applications" textbook
- A photograph from the Apollo 11 mission that Mark Brown kept on his dorm wall as a student
- Jerry Ross’ STS-135 (final Space Shuttle Program mission) Astronaut Support Personnel Checklist
- Roy Bridges Jr.’s Space Lab 2 (STS-51-F) cloth mission patch
- Donald E. Williams’s NASA medical certification for spaceflight laminated identification card
- A model of a lunar landing module with a mounted plaque inscribed "Neil A. Armstrong."
The "Beyond Spaceship Earth" exhibit also includes a re-creation of parts of the International Space Station and an immersive space object experience, the "Schaefer Planetarium & Space Object Theater." You can learn more about the exhibit by clicking here.