The company has done extensive development work on life rafts with NASA and has supplied the astronauts with life rafts since the first Apollo missions. Our specially designed rafts were deployed around the world for the Skylab program. All Astronauts carry our life rafts on each Space Shuttle mission.

Apollo capsule with our 7-man recovery raft

Exiting spacecraft

Apollo 11 makes a smooth splashdown in 1969, aided by our rafts and floatation devices

Astronaut Thomas D. Akers afloat in our LRU-18/U life raft

John Glenn

Ready to be picked up

Emergency bailout training session