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1. AIRXC_210518_05.JPG: Project Egress Built for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on July 18th, 2019
2. AIRXC_210518_11.JPG: A Unified Hatch In 1967, during a routine countdown simulation on the Apollo 1 spacecraft, an electrical fire erupted inside the command module cabin. Under ideal conditions, the three-part hatch could be opened inwards within 60 to 90 seconds, but the fire spread quickly within the pure oxygen environment, and the atmospheric pressure difference was too great. The astronauts were unable to exit in time. Following the Apollo 1 tragedy, engineers were tasked with designing a new hatch that could be opened in 3 seconds, and allow the crew to egress in under half a minute. The new hatch design integrated the three layers into one, and equipped the perimeter of the door with fifteen latches, actuated by five strokes of a ratcheting handle. It also included a plunger mechanism, a gas powered piston to push the hatch open and attenuate travel, a manually operated pressure dump valve, and a screw jack attachment for emergency closure. This impressive feat of engineering was unprecedented. It is estimated around 150 new tools were designed and built just to work on it. One account refers to the unified hatch as "the most carefully engineered and manufactured door ever built."
3. AIRXC_210518_22.JPG: Artist Jen Schachter recruited a team of over forty makers and fabricators from around the country to contribute to Project Egress. Referencing the 3D files and dimensioned drawings, each artist precisely manufactured one piece of the hatch assembly using a process of their own choosing. The resulting sculpture is a patchwork of materials and techniques showing the hand of each builder and the ways we interpret aerospace history and material culture. Project Egress is a celebration of not only the technology itself, but the thinkers and makers, seen and unseen, who made the first lunar landing possible. The Project Egress hatch was assembled by Adam Savage, Andrew Barth, and Jen Schachter at the National Air and Space Museum before a live audience, on July 18th, 2019.
4. AIRXC_210518_32.JPG: Neil A. Armstrong Aviation Heritage Trophy
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