Apollo Beta Cloth & Skylab Flown Pencil Lead - NASA - Space - Astronaut

Description

Skylab 3
Flown Pencil Lead Display
Apollo Beta Cloth Presentation
Skylab 3 Flown Pencil Lead Display
The first of these items is a business card display upon which pencil lead flown on Skylab 3 from Skylab Astronaut Jack Lousma's garland mechanical pencil has been used to make marks in a box.
Excellent provenance from Jack Lousma's personal collection
The Flown Skylab Pencil lead was contained within Jack Lousma's Garland Mechanical Pencil, SEB12100081-301, Serial Number 1064. The pencil lead used to make the pencil marks on this display flew 24,500,000 miles, completing 858 orbits of the Earth during the fifty nine day Skylab  mission which launched on July 28th 1973 and returned to earth on September 25th 1973.
Apollo Beta Cloth Presentation
Mounted on this A4 sized thin card presentation is a large segment of genuine vintage beta cloth dating from the 1960's as used in NASA's Apollo space program.
Beta cloth, a woven fibreglass fabric, was developed following the Apollo 1 fire.  It could protect against temperatures up to 650°c, and was incorporated into the Apollo/Skylab A7L space suits giving astronauts a better chance to escape a launch pad fire.  The beta cloth was coated with Teflon to increase durability and prohibit abrasion during use.
The Apollo space suit, produced by ILC, was comprised of three major parts, an  inner layer for comfort, a middle pressure garment layer and an outer layer known as the thermal micrometeroid garment (TMG).  The TMG contained multiple layers of aluminized mylar and fabrics to reflect radiation and reduce thermal conductivity.  This was encapsulated by the outer most layer which was covered in beta cloth fabric.
Any questions please ask.
I have a number of other space related items listed on ebay, please have a look at these.
I also offer a shipping discount on multiple purchases.