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Apollo 10
Mission Summary
Apollo 10 Facts
Apollo 10 Crew
Spacecraft
Images
Audio/Video
The Apollo Program |
| Lunar Module: |
Snoopy |
| Command and Service
Module: |
Charlie Brown
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| Crew:
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Thomas P. Stafford, commander
John W. Young, command module pilot
Eugene A. Cernan, lunar module pilot |
| Launch: |
May 18, 1969
16:49:00 UT (12:49:00 p.m. EDT)
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B |
| Lunar Orbit: |
May 21, 1969 |
| Returned to Earth: |
May 26., 1969
splashdown 16:52:23 UT (12:52:23 p.m. EDT) |
| Mission Duration: |
192 hours 3 minutes 23 seconds |
| Retrieval site: |
Pacific Ocean 15° 2' S, 164°
39' W |
| Retrieval ship: |
U.S.S. Princeton |
Highlights/Notes:
- Demonstration of color TV camera.
- Second Apollo mission to orbit the Moon.
- First time the complete Apollo spacecraft had operated around
the Moon and the second manned flight for the lunar module.
- Two Apollo 10 astronauts descended to within eight nautical
miles (14 kilometers) of the Moon's surface, the closest approach
ever to another celestial body.
- All aspects of Apollo 10 duplicated conditions of the lunar
landing mission as closely as possible--Sun angles at Apollo Site
2, the out-and-back flight path to the Moon, and the time line
of mission events. Apollo 10 differed from Apollo
11 in that no landing was made on the Moon's surface.
- Apollo 10 was the only Apollo mission to launch from Launch
Complex 39B.
- Maximum separation between the LM and the CSM during the rendezvous
sequence was about 350 miles (563 km) and provided an extensive
checkout of the LM rendezvous radar as well as the backup VHS
ranging device aboard the CSM, flown for the first time on Apollo
10.
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