• Beta cloth protective cover for the astronaut’s oxygen umbilical.
• Covers the actual flight oxygen umbilical during ground tests.
• Label in large print instructs “REMOVE COVER PRIOR TO FLIGHT.”
• Splits into two smaller sleeves for the hose connections to the suit. These are labeled "LL" which was a designation used for the Skylab rescue mission configuration of the Command Module, for use by the crewman at the "Lower Left" position.
• Snaps on the outside of the cover would retain the electrical umbilical ("cobra cable").
• Soiled in some areas.
• Identical to the cover that would have been used for the commander.

Price: US$ SOLD

• This item came from the Charles Bell estate. Bell was a NASA employee at the Kennedy Space Center and a lifelong collector of space artifacts.