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Science Museum, London, England
Downloading Apollo 10 from the Science Museum, London  The Apollo 10 Command Module 

The Apollo 10 Command Module, call sign Charlie Brown, took astronauts Tom Stafford, John Young and Gene Cernan around the Moon and returned them to Earth in May 1969. 

This mission of the Apollo programme was the dress rehearsal for the first manned lunar landing carried out by Apollo 11 two months later. Charlie Brown travelled approximately 800 000 km (500 000 miles) during the 8-day mission and exceeded 39 887 km/h (24 790 mph) on its return to Earth, faster than any other crewed vehicle before or since. The outer surface of  

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Image by: Simon Ho
Date: January 19, 2007
Mission information from NASA
Older Images
Note removal of space suited Mannequins

Cont.

Charlie Brown shows scorching as it heated to over 3000 °C during re-entry of the Earths atmosphere. 

Text by the Science Museum

The hatch missing from the CM is at the Air Zoo.  JG 

Image by: Juhász Tibor
Date: February 11, 2002

Image by: Murray Stokely
Date: November 13, 2001
Courtesy Apollo Maniacs
Images by: Takeshi Muto
Date: August, 2001
Image by: Tristan Cools
Date: February 11, 1998

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