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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 ] ).
Launch Complex 39B was designed to handle launches of the Saturn V rocket, the largest and most powerful launch vehicle, which would propel Apollo spacecraft to the Moon. Launch Complex 39B's inaugural launch in May 1969 was also that of the only Saturn V to launch from the pad; SA-505, used to launch the Apollo 10 mission.
See TIME's photos of Americans who watched Apollo 11 lift off for the moon on July 16, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Chandrayaan-2 mission launched on July 22, 2019, exactly 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission and two years before it captured images of the 1969 lunar landers.
1969 saw humanity step onto another world for the first time. On 20 July 1969, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, Eagle, landed on the Moon's surface with two astronauts aboard. . Days later the crew of three returned safely to Earth, satisfying U.S. President John F. Kennedy's challenge of 25 May 1961, that "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of ...
You may think you've seen photos of the moon landing before, but you haven't like this.
3 March 1969 Apollo 9: 13 March 1969 Apollo 9: Tested Lunar Module in low Earth orbit. 34 Thomas P. Stafford (3) John Young (3) Eugene Cernan (2) 18 May 1969 Apollo 10: 26 May 1969 Apollo 10: Tested Lunar Module in low lunar orbit. 35 Neil Armstrong (2) Michael Collins (2) Buzz Aldrin (2) 16 July 1969 Apollo 11: Moon: 24 July 1969 Apollo 11 ...
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 ...