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The #Apollo10 rocket inches its way to Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy #Space Center, March 11, 1969.
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The #Apollo10 rocket inches its way to Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy #Space Center, March 11, 1969.
"The 363-foot-high Saturn V rocket for the #Apollo10 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."
March 11, 1969
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You may remember a series of Peanuts comic strips that ran from March 10 to March 15, 1969, in which Snoopy becomes the first beagle to land on the moon (beating his namesake lunar module there by a couple of months). #Apollo10 May, 1969
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#MarsHillBlog Post A brief look at Apollo 10 #Apollo10 #ThomasStafford #JohnYoung #EugeneCernan #Earth #TheMoon #SolarSystem #Space paulburgin.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-br...
Highlights of the space flights of 1969 prior to moon landing..
#Spacerace
Soyuz 4 USSR
Launch date 14 January
Soyuz 5 USSR
Launch date 15 January
#Apollo9 USA
Launch date 3 March
#Apollo10 USA
Launch date 18 May
#Apollo11 USA
Launch date 16 July
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A true astronauts' astronaut, #HappyBirthday to the remarkable John Young, born September 24, 1930.
He flew Gemini 3. Commanded Gemini 10. On #Apollo10, he flew solo round the Moon. He drove the LRV during #Apollo16 & commanded the shuttle on STS-1 & STS-9
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Remember on his birthday:
Tom Stafford
(born September 17, 1930)
#Apollo10 #Gemini9 #Gemini6 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
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🌑 Apollo 10 Moon Marble by Bellingham, WA Artist Sagan Glass. 🚀
#Apollo #moonmission #moon #glassart #Apollo10 #nasa #marble #spaceglass #space #saganglass #highendart #marbles #museumquality #thehippiehouse #hippiehouse #straycat #derp #moons #galaxy #moonshadows #boro #collectorglass #kitty #cat
Reminder:
NASA's Apollo program landed on the moon in five competent, accountable steps. FIVE.
#Apollo7 #Apollo8 #Apollo9 #Apollo10 #Apollo11
#Apollo10 command module "Charlie Brown" with chutes deployed just prior to splashdown #OTD May 26 1969
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#Apollo10 returned from its trip around the moon on May 26, 1969. The successful "dress rehearsal" enabled the first moon landing later that summer.
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#Apollo10 splashed down in the Pacific at 12:52 p.m. EDT on May 26, 1969 - 5.4 kilometers from the recovery ship. The crew was picked up and reached the recovery ship U.S.S. Princeton.
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May 26, 1969: #Apollo10 splashes down in Pacific less than 4 mi (6.4 km) from target point & recovery ship.
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#Apollo10 was a green light for a lunar landing of #Apollo11. Less than 2 months later, man would be walking on the Moon.
May 26, 1969
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#Apollo10 was a green light for a lunar landing of #Apollo11. Less than 2 months later, man would be walking on the Moon.
May 26, 1969
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May 26, 1969: #Apollo10 splashes down in Pacific less than 4 mi (6.4 km) from target point & recovery ship.
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#Apollo10 splashed down in the Pacific at 12:52 p.m. EDT on May 26, 1969 - 5.4 kilometers from the recovery ship. The crew was picked up and reached the recovery ship U.S.S. Princeton.
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#Apollo10 returned from its trip around the moon on May 26, 1969. The successful "dress rehearsal" enabled the first moon landing later that summer.
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#Apollo10 splashed down in the Pacific at 12:52 p.m. EDT on May 26, 1969 - 5.4 kilometers from the recovery ship. The crew was picked up and reached the recovery ship U.S.S. Princeton #Space
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#Apollo10 command module "Charlie Brown" with chutes deployed just prior to splashdown #OTD May 26 1969
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Speed of Apollo...
#Apollo10 set the record for the highest speed attained by a crewed vehicle: 39,897 km/h (11.08 km/s or 24,791 mph) on May 26, 1969, during the return to earth from the moon.
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One small rollout for #Apollo11, one giant leap for mankind!
1969, while the #Apollo10 astronauts were en route to the Moon, the Saturn V rocket destined to launch Apollo 11 on its historic mission made its slow journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A. May 20, 1969
May 22, 1969. #Apollo10 Lunar Module 'Snoopy' carries Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan on a "dress rehearsal" for the moon landing.
The LM Snoopy would come to within 8.4 nautical miles of the lunar surface.
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“I keep telling Neil Armstrong that we painted that white line in the sky all the way to the moon."
— Eugene Cernan
May 22, 1969, #Apollo10 astronauts descended to within 9 miles of the lunar surface—the closest approach to the Moon until #Apollo11.
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May 22, 1969
#Apollo10 LM descends to within 15.4 km of the lunar surface.
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May 22, 1969 - The #Apollo10 lunar module Snoopy flying above the moon's surface, taken from the main Command Service Module. Charlie Brown. Apollo 10 was the full dress rehearsal for the moon landing that took place two months later in July of 1969.
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Smack on target Charlie Brown.
#Apollo10 May 22, 1969
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