(Above) This painting is a North American Rockwell artist’s concept depicting the Apollo 10 Lunar Module descending to 50,000 ft for a close look at a lunar landing site.

The Command and Service modules remain in lunar orbit. The landing area is Site 2 on the east central part of the moon in southwestern Sea of Tranquility (Mare Tranquillitatis). The site is about 62 miles east of the rim of the crater Sabine and 118 miles west-southwest of the crater Maskelyne.

SPACE FIRST: Apollo 10 broadcast the first live color TV from space.

(Above Photo) Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 10 lunar module pilot, is seen in this color reproduction taken from the third television transmission made by the color television camera aboard the Apollo 10 spacecraft.

When this picture was taken, the Apollo 10 spacecraft was on a translunar course, and was already about 36,000 nautical miles from earth.