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{{Short description|Part of American space suits}} | {{Short description|Part of American space suits}} | ||
[[File:Armstrong-Spencom01.jpg|thumb|[[Neil Armstrong]] wearing a Snoopy cap|alt=Neil Armstrong wearing a Snoopy cap]] | [[File:Armstrong-Spencom01.jpg|thumb|[[Neil Armstrong]] wearing a Snoopy cap|alt=Neil Armstrong wearing a Snoopy cap]] | ||
A '''Snoopy cap''', or '''communication cap''', is a part of a [[space suit]] worn by American astronauts on the head and incorporating an [[Headset (audio)|audio headset]] for communication.<ref name="NASA - 13 November 2008 - Learn About Spacesuits">{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/spacesuits/home/clickable_suit_nf.html|title=Learn About Spacesuits|date=November 13, 2008|publisher=[[NASA]]|accessdate=15 March 2017}}</ref> | A '''Snoopy cap''', or '''communication cap''', is a part of a [[space suit]] worn by American astronauts on the head and incorporating an [[Headset (audio)|audio headset]] for communication.<ref name="NASA - 13 November 2008 - Learn About Spacesuits">{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/spacesuits/home/clickable_suit_nf.html|title=Learn About Spacesuits|date=November 13, 2008|publisher=[[NASA]]|accessdate=15 March 2017|archive-date=25 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225233404/https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/spacesuits/home/clickable_suit_nf.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> | ||
The cap is nicknamed after [[Snoopy|the Peanuts character]], whom its black and white paneling resembled.<ref name="Smithsonian Institution - National Air and Space Museum - Armstrong's Apollo 11 Snoopy Cap">{{cite web|url=https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/outside-the-spacecraft/online/image-detail.cfm?id=9650|title=Armstrong's Apollo 11 "Snoopy Cap"|work=[[National Air and Space Museum]]|publisher=[[Smithsonian Institution]]|accessdate=15 March 2017}}</ref> | The cap is nicknamed after [[Snoopy|the Peanuts character]], whom its black and white paneling resembled.<ref name="Smithsonian Institution - National Air and Space Museum - Armstrong's Apollo 11 Snoopy Cap">{{cite web|url=https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/outside-the-spacecraft/online/image-detail.cfm?id=9650|title=Armstrong's Apollo 11 "Snoopy Cap"|work=[[National Air and Space Museum]]|publisher=[[Smithsonian Institution]]|accessdate=15 March 2017}}</ref> | ||
Its [[NASA]] designation is '''Communications Carrier Assembly'''.<ref name="NASA - Communicating in Space - Advancing Technology">{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moonmars/features/hatsman.html|title=NASA - Communicating in Space|date=August 26, 2010|publisher=[[NASA]]|accessdate=10 April 2017}}</ref> The "Snoopy cap" includes two earphones and two microphones, to tolerate failure of a single unit.<ref name="Springer Praxis Books - 2011 - U.S. Spacesuits - page 47">{{cite book|last1=Thomas|first1=Kenneth S|last2=McMann|first2=Harold J|title=U.S. Spacesuits|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qlo_kJwtyZoC&pg=PA47|year=2011|publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer Praxis Books]]|isbn=978-1-4419-9566-7|page=47}}</ref> | Its [[NASA]] designation is '''Communications Carrier Assembly'''.<ref name="NASA - Communicating in Space - Advancing Technology">{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moonmars/features/hatsman.html|title=NASA - Communicating in Space|date=August 26, 2010|publisher=[[NASA]]|accessdate=10 April 2017}}</ref> The "Snoopy cap" includes two earphones and two microphones, to tolerate failure of a single unit.<ref name="Springer Praxis Books - 2011 - U.S. Spacesuits - page 47">{{cite book|last1=Thomas|first1=Kenneth S|last2=McMann|first2=Harold J|title=U.S. Spacesuits|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qlo_kJwtyZoC&pg=PA47|year=2011|publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer Praxis Books]]|isbn=978-1-4419-9566-7|page=47}}</ref> | ||
Revision as of 18:26, 21 December 2024
A Snoopy cap, or communication cap, is a part of a space suit worn by American astronauts on the head and incorporating an audio headset for communication.[1] The cap is nicknamed after the Peanuts character, whom its black and white paneling resembled.[2] Its NASA designation is Communications Carrier Assembly.[3] The "Snoopy cap" includes two earphones and two microphones, to tolerate failure of a single unit.[4]