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Apollo 10 (26)
The Dress Rehearsal
Pad 39-B (1)
Saturn-V AS-505 (5)
1st Launch LC-39B
High Bay 2
MLP 3
Firing Room 3
Demonstrate performance of LM and CSM in lunar gravitation field. Evaluate CSM and LM
docked and undocked lunar navigation. All mission objectives were
achieved.
May 18, 1969; 12:49:00pm EDT Kennedy Space Center. FL. No Delays.
Altitude: 190km x 184km
Inclination: xxx degrees
Orbits: 31revolutions
Duration: 08 Days, 0 hours, 03 min, 23 seconds
Distance: miles
May 26, 1969; 12:52:23pm EDT. Landing point 15deg 2min South by 164deg 39min West;
Less than 4 miles (6.4km) from target point and recover ship . Crew on board U.S.S. Princeton at 01:31 p.m. EDT; spacecraft
aboard ship at 02:28 p.m.
Apogee 190 kilometers
Perigee 184km
Trans-lunar injection 02:39:21 MET (Mission Elapsed Time)
Maximum
distance from Earth 399,194km
First CSM-LM docking in translunar trajectory 03:17:37 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
Trans-earth injection, 137:36:29 MET
Dress rehearsal for Moon landing. First manned
CSM/LM operations in cislunar and lunar
environment; 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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Crew
Thomas
Stafford Commander
Eugene Cernan
Lunar module pilot
John Young
Command Module Pilot
Backup Crew
L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
Commander
Edgar D. Mitchell
Lunar module pilot
Donn
F. Eisele
Command Module Pilot
Payload
SM-106
(Charlie Brown)
LM-4 (Snoopy)
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
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