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Life Jacket with Camera Mirror, Glenn, Friendship 7
John H. Glenn, Jr.
This life jacket was issued to John Glenn for his Friendship 7 flight in February 1962. The life jacket is the self-inflating tube-type Navy issue life jacket made of rubberized nylon. It was strapped to his chest with the convex mirror fastened to the front.
- Type
- PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Life Support
- Medium
- Bag and Interior: Nylon, rubber impregnated nylon
- Department
- NASM
- Institution
- National Air and Space Museum
- Object number
- nasm_A19670185000
- Credit
- Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration