APOLLO 10 ( AS-505 )
Apollo 10 insignia
Apollo 10 prime crew
Mission Status
| Launch date | 18. May. 1969 16:49:00 UTC(12:49:00 EDT) |
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| Mission Designation | AS-505 / SA-505 |
| Launch Pad | PAD 39B |
| Spacecraft | |
| CSM | CSM-106 (Charlie Brown) |
| LM | LM-4 (Snoopy) |
| Launch vehcle | |
| Type | Saturn V |
| First Stage | S-IC-5 |
| Second Stage | S-II-5 |
| Third stage | S-IVB-505 |
| Instrument Unit(IU) | S-IU-505 |
| Prime crew | |
| Commander Pilot:CDP | Thomas P. Stafford |
| CM Pilot:CMP | John W. Young |
| LM Pilot:LMP | Eugiene A. Cernan |
| Backup crew | |
| Commander Pilot:CDP | Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. |
| CM Pilot:CMP | Donn F. Eisesle |
| LM Pilot:LMP | Edgar D. Mitchell |
| 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. | |
| Mission Result | |
| On 22 May the LM was separated from the CSM at 19:36:17 UT. The LM was put into an orbit to allow low altitude passes over the lunar surface, the closest approach bringing it to within 14 km of the Moon. At the descent, because of a slight mistake of automatic abort guidance system setting, LM lost control, and it was almost about to crash on the moon. All systems on the LM were tested during the separation including communications, propulsion, attitude control, and radar. Numerous close-up photographs of the Moon's surface, in particular the planned Apollo landing sites, were taken. The LM descent stage was jettisoned into lunar orbit. The LM and CSM rendezvous and redocking occurred 8 hours after separation at 03:22 UT on 23 May. | |
| Parameters | |
| Launch weight | 2,908,597(kg) |
| Lunar orbits | 31 |
| Duration | 192:03:23(About 8 days) |
| Splashed down | 26.May.1969 16:52:23 UTC (12:52:23 EDT) |
| Splashdown point | Pacific Ocean:15 deg 2 min S, 164 deg 39 min W:400 miles east of American Samoa |
| Recovery ship | U.S.S Princeton |
| CSM-106 Apollo10 Charlie Brown |
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| LM-4 Apollo10 Snoopy |
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| No Thermal Blanket on legs. Four Lunar Surface Sensing Probe are attached at all legs. Scimitar antenna on front face. No RCS Plume Deflectors. |
Mission Photos
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