A North American Rockwell Corporation artist's concept depicting the Apollo Command Module (CM), oriented in a blunt-end-forward attitude, re-entering Earth's atmosphere after returning from a lunar landing mission. Note the change in color caused by the extremely high temperatures encountered upon re-entry.
North American Rockwell
1968-08
<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://images.nasa.gov/details-S68-55292">https://images.nasa.gov/details-S68-55292</a>; original from <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo8/html/s68-55292.html">http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo8/html/s68-55292.html</a>