[JBW1949]

I remember looking into the Mercury capsule of Alan Shepard hanging in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum...A panel with switches, knobs and such was what looked like walnut wood....

[Red Badger]

Georgia Pacific was the contractor?.............

[NorthMountain]

A panel with switches, knobs and such was what looked like walnut wood....

Phenolic composite. It's brown. Looks like wood. Was very highly regarded in aerospace and electronics back then. Has since been overtaken by fiberglass composites and carbon-fiber composites in the decades since.