Apollo-10 (26)
- Pad 39-B (1)
- Saturn-V AS-505 (5)
- 1st Launch LC-39B
- High Bay 2
- MLP 3
- Firing Room 3
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Crew:
- Eugene A. Cernan
- John W. Young
- Thomas P. Stafford
Backup Crew:
Milestones:
- 12/10/68 - S-II Stage ondock at KSC
- 11/27/68 - S-1C Stage ondock at KSC
- 12/03/68 - S-IVB ondock at KSC
- 12/15/68 - S-IU ondock at KSC
- 05/18/69 - Launch
Payload:
- CSM-106 (Charlie Brown) and LM-4 (Snoopy)
Mission Objective:
- Demonstrate performance of LM and CSM in lunar gravitation field. Evaluate
CSM and LM docked and undocked lunar navigation. All mission objectives
were achieved.
Launch:
- May 18, 1969; 12:49:00 a.m. EDT Kennedy Space Center. FL. No Delays.
Orbit:
- Altitude: 190km x 184km
- Inclination: xxx degrees
- Orbits:
- Duration: 08 Days, 0 hours, 03 min, 23 seconds
- Distance: miles
Landing:
- May 26, 1969; 12:52am EDT. Landing point 15deg 2min South by
164deg 39min West; Miss distance not available. Crew on board
U.S.S. Princeton at 01:31 p.m. EDT; spacecraft aboard ship at 02:28 p.m.
Mission Highlights:
- Apogee, 190 kilometers; perigee, 184km; translunar injection,
02:39:21 MET; maximum distance from Earth, 399,194km; first CSM-LM
docking in translunar trajectory, 03:17:37 MET; lunar orbit insertion,
75:55:54 MET; first LM undocking in lunar orbit, 98:11:57 MET; first
LM staging in lunar orbit, 102:45:17 MET; first manned LM-CSM docking
in lunar orbit, 106:22:02 MET; transearth injection 137:36:29 MET.
- Dress rehearsal for Moon landing. First manned
CSM/LM operations in cislunar and lunar environ-
ment; simulation of first lunar landing profile.
In lunar orbit 61.6 hours, with 31 orbits. LM
taken to within 15,243 m (50,000 ft) of lunar
surface. First live color TV from space. LM
ascent stage jettisoned in orbit.
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Last Updated Thursday November 28 17:48:03 EDT 1996
Jim Dumoulin (dumoulin@titan.ksc.nasa.gov)