Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise Lunch Box
Object Details
- Date made
- 1979
- collected for nmah
- Smithsonian Institution
- maker
- Thermos
- Description (Brief)
- This metal lunch box was manufactured by Thermos in 1979. The box features imagery of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise. The Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise was the first shuttle that NASA built, but it never went to space. Instead it was used for approach and landing tests. The shuttle was originally going to be named the Constitution, but fans of the TV series Star Trek staged a write-in campaign and the shuttle was renamed after the show’s USS Enterprise NCC-1701. The shuttle now resides at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- general subject association
- School Personal Equipment
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Popular Entertainment
- Family & Social Life
- Lunch Boxes
- Related Publication
- Allen Woodall and Sean Brickell. Illustrated Encyclopedia of Metal Lunch Boxes
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 1988.3160.35
- catalog number
- 1988.3160.35
- nonaccession number
- 1988.3160
- Object Name
- lunch box
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/4 in x 8 3/4 in x 4 in; 18.415 cm x 22.225 cm x 10.16 cm
- Record ID
- nmah_1054202