ORIGINAL NASA DEVICE USED ON SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION FOR FIRING SOLID BOOSTER ROCKETS trapping Vintage California boat racing trophy

Vintage California boat racing trophy

produced 1899-1903

Army manual Tank Combat Tables M60 A3

Very few matched pairs such as this come up

ORIGINAL NASA DEVICE USED ON SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION FOR FIRING SOLID BOOSTER ROCKETS trapping Vintage California boat racing trophyThis device went into space on an actual NASA Space Shuttle mission. It was used to initiate firing of the Shuttles Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs). The technical name for this is the Confined Detonating Fuse (CDF) Manifold with Exploding Bridgewire (EBW). The unit is 8 inches long and 1 inches in diameter, with two 8 foot lengths of braided tubing. It is labeled with the following info: CDF MANIFOLD 55340 10312 002 801 MFR: 17610 51077 151 MFR DATE MO 7