Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Differences in appearance between shuttles
Message-ID: <1990Aug22.033847.8934@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3316@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 90 03:38:47 GMT

In article <3316@syma.sussex.ac.uk> andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) writes:
>Lastly, a query on the Apollo command module. Several photographs that I
>have, show the Apollo CM in pre-flight status, as being a deep metallic
>blue colour. A few in-space pictures seem to confirm this. Is it true
>that they were blue? And why?

The Apollo news reference says the outermost surface was aluminized Mylar,
so its color was the color of whatever it happened to be reflecting at the
moment.
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