Earth Path Indicator, Mercury 4
date: label: Date
content: 1961
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Honeywell Co.
notes: label: Summary
content: The Mercury space capsule carried this device, designed by the Honeywell Corporation, which allowed the astronaut to see his orbital track and heading. For example, it indicated when the spacecraft was passing over a ground station or a landing site. The device was a simple globe, driven by a clockwork mechanism. Once in a stable orbit, the astronaut would wind up the clockwork, and set the position of a tiny scale model of the Mercury capsule, under which the globe would rotate.
label: Summary
content: This specimen was flown aboard MA-4, an unmanned Mercury flight that preceeded the manned flights.
label: Summary
content: Transferred from NASA to the Museum in 1972.
place: label: Country of Origin
content: United States of America
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Air and Space Museum Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transferred from National Aeronautics and Space Administration
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Air and Space Museum
identifier: label: Inventory Number
content: A19721170000
objectType: label: Type
content: INSTRUMENTS-Flight Management
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Materials
content: Aluminum case, with interior parts of plastic and other materials.
label: Dimensions
content: 3-D: 12.7 x 22.9 x 12.7cm (5 x 9 x 5 in.)