スミソニアン博物館のインスタグラム(smithsonian) - 9月18日 06時22分

Why did early astronaut survival kits include shark repellent? Not for warding off sharks in space.

Mission planners couldn't be sure reentry capsules would land in the splashdown zone. Astronaut Scott Carpenter landed 250 miles off course and Gemini VIII was forced down in the Pacific Ocean.
So astronauts carried survival equipment. The early kits were standard military issue for the U.S. Navy and had shark repellent known as "shark chaser," a powder that could be released into the sea.

This sea shark chaser was part of the survival kit in Freedom 7, the first Mercury mission when Alan Shepard became the first American in space, and is in our @airandspacemuseum.

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