Apollo 10

Pad 39-B (1)

Saturn-V AS-505 (5)

1st Launch LC-39B

High Bay 2

MLP 3

Firing Room 3

Crew:

Eugene A. Cernan

John W. Young

Thomas P. Stafford

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.

Source: NASA