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====''Making the Modern World''==== [[File:Apollo 10 comand module science museum.JPG|thumb|The Apollo 10 Command Module ''Charlie Brown'', which orbited the Moon 31 times in 1969,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_10a_Summary.htm |title=Apollo 10 |website=history.nasa.gov |access-date=30 June 2019 |archive-date=26 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126043142/http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_10a_Summary.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> is displayed in the Modern World Gallery.]] ''Making the Modern World'' displays some of the museum's most remarkable objects, including [[Puffing Billy (locomotive)|''Puffing Billy'']] (the oldest surviving steam locomotive), Crick's [[double helix]], and the command module from the [[Apollo 10]] mission, which are displayed along a timeline chronicling man's technological achievements. A [[V-2 rocket]], designed by German rocket scientist [[Wernher von Braun]], is displayed in this gallery. Doug Millard, space historian and curator of space technology at the museum, states: "We got to the Moon using V-2 technology but this was technology that was developed with massive resources, including some particularly grim ones. The V-2 programme was hugely expensive in terms of lives, with the Nazis using slave labour to manufacture these rockets".<ref>{{cite news |first=Richard |last=Hollingham |title=V2: The Nazi rocket that launched the space age |url=https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140905-the-nazis-space-age-rocket |date=8 September 2014 |access-date=26 February 2023 |publisher=BBC |archive-date=6 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306050345/https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140905-the-nazis-space-age-rocket |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Millard |first1=Doug |title=V-2: The Rocket That Launched The Space Age |url=https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/v-2-the-rocket-that-launched-the-space-age/ |website=Science Museum Blog |date=8 September 2014 |access-date=26 February 2023 |archive-date=19 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190919235705/https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/v-2-the-rocket-that-launched-the-space-age/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Stephenson's Rocket]] used to be displayed in this gallery. After a short UK tour, since 2019 ''Rocket'' is on permanent display at the [[National Railway Museum]] in York, in the Art Gallery.
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