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SPACE SHUTTLE MID-DECK STORAGE LOCKER WITH UMS ASSEMBLY
20 July 2016, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$1,000 - US$1,500
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SPACE SHUTTLE MID-DECK STORAGE LOCKER WITH UMS ASSEMBLY
Aluminum alloy locker, 18 x 21 x 10½ inches, housing 8 x 8 x 9½ inch Urine Monitoring System (UMS) Assembly, c.1982. Locker exterior painted white, door labelled "MF71G" above a rectangular Velcro patch. Door opens on a bottom-mounted hinge and is held closed by a winged screw attached to a bolt at each top corner. The screws are tied to the bolts with short cords when not in place. The four corners of the locker from front to back are each lined with six mounts for affixing screws to bolt the locker in place during flight. The UMS Assembly is made of blue-painted aluminum with four white Velcro rectangles attached to the rear, a 1 x 1½ x 3½ inch depression in its left side and an unpainted metal carrying handle attached to the right side of its front. The top right front corner of the UMS houses a separate black painted aluminum section housing a Lucite-bodied hexagonal screw attached to the UMS body with a short piece of wire. Two metal screws housing partially foil-covered translucent plastic hoses are positioned next to the hexagonal screw on the UMS body and are stenciled "SSP." The leftmost hose is bound to a larger, black and blue plastic ribbed tube with black adhesive tape, both of which terminate in a single grey-painted plastic and metal screw assembly. The free end of the tube terminates in a grey-painted hard plastic L-Tube labelled "C UPC R 6 NIBCO RVC-I." The rightmost hose is likewise attached to a similar tube and terminates with it at a grey-painted hard plastic tube assembly with a Velcro square attached. The free end of the tube ends in a diagonally cut hard grey-plastic pipe, held in place with a white plastic cuff with an adjustable metal band. Another translucent hose is screwed to the bottom left corner of the UMS with a metal assembly with raised letters and numbers reading "210 PAT 3,703,528" below a diamond pattern grip. This hose terminates in a similar metal assembly screw and has a foil covered tube with Velcro and nylon strap attachments at its midpoint. At the center of the UMS' front section is a black-painted circular raised area with an ellipse-shaped hole and a section of grey painted white plastic piping.
PROVENANCE: Property of an institution.
The Mid-Deck of the various Space Shuttles housed numerous storage lockers for holding various kinds of equipment. In this piece's case, the locker held the Shuttle's Urine Monitoring System (UMS), providing for collection, volume measurement, and sampling of void-by-void urine in 0-g or 1-g environments.
PROVENANCE: Property of an institution.
The Mid-Deck of the various Space Shuttles housed numerous storage lockers for holding various kinds of equipment. In this piece's case, the locker held the Shuttle's Urine Monitoring System (UMS), providing for collection, volume measurement, and sampling of void-by-void urine in 0-g or 1-g environments.

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