Model, Observatory, UV, Orbiting, Astro-1, 1:20
name: label: Manufacturer
content: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
notes: label: Summary
content: This is a wooden scale model (1:20) of the Astro-1 observatory designed to fly on Space Shuttle in 1986; the observatory included a Field Camera to observe Comet Halley. The three major instruments on Astro-1 included the Hopkins UV Telescope (HUT), the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope and the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment. The Challenger accident led to a four-year delay and removal of the Field Camera because the Comet Halley was no longer in sight. After shuttle flights were resumed, the observatory was installed on the orbiter Columbia with an x-ray telescope in place of the comet imager. On its nine-day flight from December 2 to 11, 1990 the observatory functioned smoothly and made numerous astronomical observations. The full-scale flown HUT (Catalogue # 20010307000) and the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope from Goddard Space Flight Center are also in the collection.
place: label: Country of Origin
content: United States of America
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content: National Air and Space Museum Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Air and Space Museum
identifier: label: Inventory Number
content: A19880242000
objectType: label: Type
content: MODELS-Crewed Spacecraft & Parts
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Materials
content: Painted surfaces on wood
label: Dimensions
content: Overall: 8 in. tall x 11 in. wide x 15 1/2 in. deep (20.3 x 27.9 x 39.4cm)