NASA Space Shuttle Mission Portable Gas Detector Sentox 2.

NASA Space Shuttle Mission Portable Gas Detector Sentox 2. Made by Bacharach instrument Company a division of Ambac industries.

Model  SC, Serial No 7E9A25, CAT. NO. 0023-7246, Element NO. 800-080-50.

Purchased under contract number 68610. W/G Expires 11-sep-1980.

Size 27 x 17 x 18 cm

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development. The first (STS-1) of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights (STS-5) beginning in 1982. Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. They launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Operational missions launched numerous satellites, interplanetary probes, and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), conducted science experiments in orbit, participated in the Shuttle-Mir program with Russia, and participated in construction and servicing of the International Space Station (ISS). The Space Shuttle fleet's total mission time was 1,323 days.