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Object details:

Object Name: Star Chart, Gemini 7
Smithsonian Record ID: edanmdm:nasm_A19870208000

	Object Name
	Star Chart, Gemini 7

	Metadata Usage
	Not determined

	Guid
	http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv969cf676d-7ea0-408c-8d5f-8692c4daac70

	Data Source
	National Air and Space Museum

	Materials
	Plastic, metal

	Dimensions
	2-D - Unframed (H x W): 25cm (9 13/16 in. dia.)

	Summary
	This star chart was used to train the Gemini 7 astronauts, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, for their fourteen-day mission in Earth orbit in December 1965. Project Gemini was the second U.S. human spaceflight program. Borman and Lovell had as a primary mission testing the medical effects of surviving two weeks in weightlessness, the maximum length expected for a later mission to the Moon. But Gemini 7 also acted as the target for Gemini 6A in carrying out the first rendezvous in space. During their stay in orbit, the astronauts used star charts such as this one to find particular stars for navigation or scientific experiments.

	Summary
	NASA Johnson Space Center (then called the Manned Spacecraft Center) in Houston, Texas, gave this chart to the Smithsonian before 1971.

	Country of Origin
	United States of America

	Credit Line
	Transferred from the NASA Johnson Space Center

	Inventory Number
	A19870208000

	Type
	EQUIPMENT-Test

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