^Lot 155 Umbilical Cord

A cut section of umbilical cord from the launch pad. Section measures 3? long and 2.25? wide, with a thick rubber coating to the outside and many tightly wound wires on the inside. Accompanied by several miscellaneous space articles and booklets, including The Challenge of Space Exploration, Biographies of the Mercury Astronauts, an outline of the astronaut program, a Space Task Group fact sheet, Space: The New Frontier booklet, and a printed Project Mercury congressional report booklet.