Apollo 10
Launch Date
May 18, 1969
Craft
Apollo
Status
Past
Crew
3
Apollo 10
Launch Date
May 18, 1969
Craft
Apollo
Status
Past
Crew
3
Overview
The flight that did everything except land on the Moon. Apollo 10 was a full-on dress rehearsal of Apollo 11. This mission would do everything except touch down on the lunar surface. The flight marked the first undocking and redocking of a spacecraft in orbit of a space body other than Earth and achieved the fastest speed to date for a human mission of 39,897 km/h. During the non-landing descent toward the Moon, Stafford and Cernan came within 15 km of the lunar surface. Apollo 10 was a total success. The stage was now set. Apollo 11 would attempt to land humans on the Moon.
Crafts
Apollo
The main Apollo spacecraft was a Command and Service Module designed to take three astronauts to and from the Moon’s orbit and provide access to the lunar lander during missions. After the Moon program ended, Apollo spacecraft flew three crews to the Skylab space station and performed the historic joint U.S.-Soviet mission in 1975.
