Knife, Astronaut Survival
name: label: Manufacturer
content: W. D. Randall Jr.
notes: label: Summary
content: 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 after landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
label: Summary
content: W.D. Randall, Jr., gave this knife to the Smithsonian.
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: Gift of Mr. W.D. Randall, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Air and Space Museum
identifier: label: Inventory Number
content: A19620001000
objectType: label: Type
content: EQUIPMENT-Survival
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Materials
content: Steel, leather, micarta
label: Dimensions
content: 3-D: 24.1 × 8.3 × 2.5cm (9 1/2 × 3 1/4 × 1 in.)