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Aeronautics

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Benjamin M. Anderson Aeronautical History collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0069
Abstract:

The Benjamin M. Anderson Aeronautical History collection consists of a wide assortment of materials related to the history of aeronautics, including photos, artistic renderings, postcards, schematics and diagrams, publications and papers from aircraft manufacturers, clippings, calendars, scrapbooks, and 8mm movies and audio recordings.

Dates: 1784 - 1988

Takao Doi's Rice Flight Kit for Space Shuttle Endeavour

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0552
Abstract Takao Doi, who received his doctorate from Rice, carried this cloth image of the Orion Nebula on the Unites States Space Shuttle Endeavour mission STS-123. The Endeavour launched at 2:28 a.m. March 11, 2008 from launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Doi was a mission specialist on that mission. The image of the Orion Nebula is on a cloth that is 21.5 inches wide by 17 inches high. The cloth is of an unknown material and appears to be printed in color by a computer-generated...
Dates: 2008-2009