Apollo 10
Mission Type
crew
Launch
Landing
Apollo 10: Mission Details
Mission Objective The Apollo 10 mission encompassed all aspects of an actual crewed lunar landing, except the landing. It was…
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Thomas P. Stafford
Commander
General Stafford was selected among the second group of astronauts in September 1962 by NASA to participate in Projects Gemini and Apollo. He has flown on four space missions, logging a total of 507 hours and 43 minutes in space. He has flown over 127 different types of aircraft and helicopters and four different types of spacecraft.
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Eugene A. Cernan
Lunar Module Pilot
Captain Cernan was one of 14 astronauts selected by NASA in October 1963, and flew on 3 missions over his NASA Career: Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, and Apollo 14. He logged 566 hours and 15 minutes in space, of which more than 73 hours were spent on the surface of the Moon.
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John W. Young
Command Module Pilot
In September 1962, John W. Young was selected as an astronaut in NASA’s second astronaut group. He is the first person to fly in space six times from Earth, and seven times counting his lunar liftoff. He has logged more than 15,275 hours flying time in props, jets, helicopters, rocket jets, more than 9,200 hours in T-38s, and six space flights of 835 hours.
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Apollo 10 Articles
Read more about Apollo 10: the mission that cleared the way for the first Moon landing.
Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, died Monday, Jan. 16, surrounded by his family. Cernan, a…
“Houston, we are returning to Earth!” With those words, Apollo 10 Commander Thomas P. Stafford announced that the Trans Earth…
Following a trouble-free three-day journey from Earth, Apollo 10 slipped behind the Moon, and communications with Mission Control was temporarily…
As Commander Thomas P. Stafford stated during a preflight press conference, Apollo 10 was planned to “sort out all the…
The May 18, 1969, launch of Apollo 10 was only one week away, and the flight crew of Commander Thomas…
Two weeks before the Apollo 10 launch, engineers at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B worked to overcome a problem…
