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Apollo 10

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Apollo 10
Mission Insignia
Apollo 10 insignia
Mission Statistics
Mission Name: Apollo 10
Call Sign: Command module:
Charlie Brown
Lunar module:
Snoopy
Number of
Crew: 		3
Launch: May 18, 1969
16:49:00 UTC
Kennedy Space Center
LC 39B
Lunar Orbit: May 21 20:44:54 UTC-
May 24 10:25:29 UTC
Landing: May 26, 1969
16:52:23 UTC
15° 2' S - 164° 39' W

'Duration:\' 192 h 03 min 23 s
Number of
Lunar Orbits: 		31
Time in
Lunar Orbit: 		61 h 37 min 23.6 s
Mass: CSM 28,834 kg;
LM 13,941 kg
Crew Picture
Apollo 10 crew portrait (L-R: Cernan, Stafford, and Young)Enlarge

Apollo 10 crew portrait (L-R: Cernan, Stafford, and Young)

Apollo 10 Crew
Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the Apollo program, and the first mission to launch from pad 39B. Second crew to orbit the moon. Test of the lunar module in lunar orbit. The module came to within 50,000 feet of the lunar surface during practice maneuvers.

Table of contents
1 Crew
2 Mission Parameters
3 Mission Highlights
4 Reference
5 External link

Crew

Mission Parameters

See also

Mission Highlights

This dress rehearsal for a Moon landing brought Stafford and Cernan's lunar module-nicknamed "Snoopy"-to within nine miles of the lunar surface. Except for that final stretch, the mission went exactly as a landing would have gone, both in space and on the ground, where Apollo's extensive tracking and control network was put through a dry run. Shortly after leaving low Earth orbit, the LM and the command/service module separated, then redocked, top to top. Upon reaching lunar orbit, they separated again. While Young orbited the Moon alone in his command module "Charlie Brown," Stafford and Cernan checked out the LM's radar and ascent engine, rode out a momentary gyration in the lunar lander's motion (due to a faulty switch setting), and surveyed the Apollo 11 landing site in the Sea of Tranquillity. This test article of the lunar module was not equipped to land, however. Apollo 10 also added another first-broadcasting live color TV from space.

On May 22, 1969 Apollo 10's lunar module flew within 15,400 m of the moon's surface.

Launched: May 18, 1969 from Pad 39B
Returned: May 26, 1969
Crew members: Tom Stafford, commander; John Young, command module pilot; Gene Cernan, lunar module pilot
Command module: Charlie Brown
Lunar module: Snoopy

The command module is displayed at the London Science Museum, London, England. The lunar module is in heliocentric orbit.

CSM Enlarge

CSM "Charlie Brown" (NASA)

LM Enlarge

LM "Snoopy" (NASA)


Preceded by :
Apollo 9		 Apollo program Followed by :
Apollo 11

Reference

External link