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Apollo 10 (May 18–26, 1969) was the fourth human spaceflight in the United States' Apollo program and the second to orbit the Moon. NASA, the mission's operator, described it as a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing (Apollo 11, two months later [4]).
The D-type mission was instead performed by Apollo 9; the F-type mission, Apollo 10, flew the CSM/LM spacecraft to the Moon for final testing, without landing. The G-type mission, Apollo 11, performed the first lunar landing, the central goal of the program.
The first three lunar missions (Apollo 8, Apollo 10, and Apollo 11) used a free return trajectory, keeping a flight path coplanar with the lunar orbit, which would allow a return to Earth in case the SM engine failed to make lunar orbit insertion. Landing site lighting conditions on later missions dictated a lunar orbital plane change, which ...
The Apollo 10 mission in May 1969 set the stage for Apollo 11’s historic mission two months later. Stafford and Gene Cernan took the lunar lander nicknamed Snoopy within 9 miles (14 kilometers ...
Mission Spacecraft Launch date Carrier rocket Operator Mission type Outcome; 107: WMAP: WMAP: 30 June 2001: Delta II 7425-10: NASA: Flyby: Success Flyby on 30 July 2001 to reach the Earth–Sun L2 Lagrangian point. 108: SMART-1: SMART-1: 27 September 2003: Ariane 5G: ESA: Orbiter: Success Impacted Moon in USGS quadrangle LQ26 at end of mission ...
Thomas P. Stafford, an Apollo astronaut who came within nine miles of the moon's surface in 1969, has died. Oklahoma astronaut Tom Stafford known for Apollo 10 mission dies at 93 Skip to main content
The Apollo 10 mission in May 1969 set the stage for Apollo 11’s historic mission two months later. Stafford and Gene Cernan took the lunar lander nicknamed Snoopy within 9 miles (14 kilometers) of the moon’s surface. Astronaut John Young stayed behind in the main spaceship dubbed Charlie Brown.
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