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  2. Apollo 10 - Wikipedia

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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]).

  3. List of Apollo missions - Wikipedia

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    Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]

  4. Apollo program - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Astronaut Thomas Stafford, commander of Apollo 10, has died ...

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    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 ...

  6. Oklahoma astronaut Tom Stafford known for Apollo 10 mission ...

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    During Apollo 10, Stafford and his crew of Cernan and John Young set the all-time human speed record of 24,791 mph, or nearly seven miles per second as they returned home, a record that will ...

  7. ‘Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood’ Review: Richard ...

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    Everybody knows the name of the first man to step foot on the moon, but how many have heard the story of the kid who walked there before him? Richard Linklater’s “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age ...

  8. List of spaceflight records - Wikipedia

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    The first space rendezvous was accomplished by Gemini 6A and Gemini 7 in 1965.. Records and firsts in spaceflight are broadly divided into crewed and uncrewed categories. Records involving animal spaceflight have also been noted in earlier experimental flights, typically to establish the feasibility of sending humans to outer space.

  9. Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood - Wikipedia

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    Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood is a 2022 American animated coming of age comedy-drama film set during the events preceding the Apollo 11 Moon landing, loosely based on the childhood of writer, director, and producer Richard Linklater.