The 363-foot-high Saturn V rocket for the Apollo 10 mission towers over the crawlerway during its rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B, four miles away. Apollo 10 marked the first use of Pad B. Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan descended in a lunar module spacecraft to 50,000 feet above the moon's surface.
The 363-foot-high Saturn V rocket for the Apollo 10 mission towers over the crawlerway during its rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B, four miles away. Apollo 10 marked the first use of Pad B. Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan descended in a lunar module spacecraft to 50,000 feet above the moon’s surface while John W. Young orbited above in the command module.
Image credit: NASA
March 11, 1969