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APOLLO FLOWN COMMAND MODULE HEAT SHIELD
Flown ablative heat shield sample, approximately 100 x 29 x 15 mm, encased in Lucite block 117 x 63 x 27 mm,

25 October 2022, 14:00 EDT
New York

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APOLLO FLOWN COMMAND MODULE HEAT SHIELD

Flown ablative heat shield sample, approximately 100 x 29 x 15 mm, encased in Lucite block 117 x 63 x 27 mm, mounted to wood base with explanatory plaque.
Provenance: Beverly Joan Gresham, Customer Relations at North American Rockwell/Rockwell International, Space Systems Division, 1954-1999.

Although the plaque doesn't specify from which mission this particularly large heat shield sample derives, it does list Rockwell International / Space Division, which wasn't formed until 1973, and it does specify that it was flown: "Core Specimen from a [sic] Apollo Crew Module Ablative Heat Shield After Re-Entry." One would deduce that this comes from either one of the Skylab missions or Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

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