Smithsonian Museum
There is a HP-41C on display in the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. It flew on seven Space Shuttle missions. It could have been used in an emergency to calculate orbit and re-entry information if there were failure of the shuttle main computer systems.
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