Apollo 10 was the fourth human spaceflight in the United States' Apollo program and the second to orbit the Moon. NASA, the mission's operator, described it as a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon l
Apollo 10's Lunar Module, Snoopy, approaches the Command and Service Module Charlie Brown for redocking
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En route to launch, Stafford touches a "Snoopy" doll
Apollo 10 space-flown silver Robbins medallion
John Watts Young was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 19
Apollo 10
…intended to test all spacecraft components and procedures short of actual descent and landing. After the spacecraft reached lunar orbit, astronaut John Young remained in the Command and Service Module (CSM) while astronauts Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan flew the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) to within 14.4…
Young during a pre-launch exercise of Gemini 3
Young being hoisted from the capsule following his Gemini 10 flight