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Reinscorched

Currently 41 years old, NASA's Command Module CSM-106 Charlie Brown from Apollo 10 is on loan to the London Science Museum.

 

On May 29th 1969 it set the world speed record for a manned vehicle, at 24,791mph. The heat shield is brown and looks like it was burned to a crisp, and the original aluminiumised PET skin is gone and looks for all the world like the module is made of wood.

 

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Uploaded on October 31, 2010
Taken on October 21, 2010