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Astronautyka => Księżyc => Wątek zaczęty przez: kanarkusmaximus w Lipca 14, 2010, 19:15
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Pierwotna data publikacji - 18/05/2009
18 maja 2009 roku minie 40 lat od początku wyjątkowej misji programu Apollo. Była to próba generalna przed lądowaniem na Księżycu. Od jej powodzenia zależał los (oraz ewentualne terminy) kolejnej misji - pierwszego lądowania człowieka na innym niż Ziemia obiekcie we Wszechświecie.
Aby misja Apollo 10 była możliwa, wpierw lądownik księżycowy oraz procedury związane z lotem LM, musiały zostać przetestowane na orbicie wokółziemskiej. Stało się to podczas misji Apollo 9 w marcu 1969 roku. Bez wątpienia również sukces wcześniejszej misji - Apollo 8 - pozwolił na zatwierdzenie misji Apollo 10.
Załogę misji Apollo 10 stanowili:
- Thomas Stafford - dowódca misji
- John Young - pilot modułu dowodzenia
- Eugene Cernan - pilot lądownika księżycowego
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Załoga Apollo 10 - od lewej Cernan, Young, Stafford
Rezerwowa załogę misji Apollo 10 stanowili kolejno Gordon Cooper, Donn Eisele oraz Edgar Mitchell. Warto dodać tutaj, że dwóch pierwszych astronautów załogi rezerwowej nie cieszyło się zbyt dużą popularnością w kręgach managementu NASA (Cooper - z uwagi na swój stosunek do zasad pracy a Eisele za zachowanie podczas Apollo 7 i romans w trakcie małżeństwa*).
Start nastąpił 18 maja 1969 roku o godzinie 16:49 GMT. Powrót na Ziemię nastąpił 8 dni i 3 minuty później - 26 maja.
W ciągu zaledwie ośmiu dni załoga Apollo 10 zdążyła:
- prawidłowo wystartować i wynieść cały sprzęt na orbitę parkingową
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Start rakiety Saturn V do misji Apollo 10
- wydostać się z parkingowej orbity wokółziemskiej na orbitę transferową do Księżyca
- dokonać dokowania z lądownikiem księżycowym
- wejść na orbitę księżycową (21 maja 1969 roku o godzinie 20:44:54 GMT)
- dokonać rozłączenia lądownika z modułem dowodzenia i transferu dwóch astronautów do lądownika
- dokonać serii testów lądownika, w tym obniżając orbitę lądownika do zaledwie 15 km ponad powierzchnią Księżyca
- zbadać planowane miejsce lądowania dla misji Apollo 11 (Morze Spokoju)
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Zdjęcie krateru Schmidt położonego niedaleko wyznaczonego miejsca lądowania dla misji Apollo 11
- ponownie połączyć lądownik wraz z modułem dowodzenia, a następnie odrzucić zbędny już lądownik
- opuścić orbitę księżycową (24 maja 1969 roku o godzinie 10:25:29 GMT)
- bezpiecznie powrócić na Ziemię
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Powrót na Ziemię 26 maja 1969
Wszystkie te etapy były wymagane podczas każdej kolejnej księżycowej misji. Bez powodzenia Apollo 10 wyznaczony cel - lądowanie na Księżycu przed końcem dekady lat 60. - byłby z pewnością trudniejszy do osiągnięcia. Dlatego, dzięki tej misji, lądowanie było możliwe już podczas następnej misji - historycznej Apollo 11.
Źródła informacji:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo10/ndxpage1.html
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10
* Zarówno jak podczas obecnej dekady, jak i w latach 60. romanse zdarzały się astronautom - a NASA nie za bardzo to lubiła..
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Swoją drogą Apollo 10 ustanowił rekord prędkości pojazdu załogowego.
Co jest dość ciekawe - czy ktoś się może orientuje jak osiągnięto to akurat w tej misji? Do tej pory zakładałem, że szybsza misja to był Apollo 8, ze względu na fakt, że nie taszczono ze sobą lądownika, a tu taka niespodzianka.
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Nie bardzo rozumiem co ma do tego LM. Rekord prędkości Apollo-10 dotyczył lotu powrotnego.
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A jak się wchodzi na orbitę Księżyca? Odpala się silnik modułu serwisowego, zużywając jego paliwo. Kiedy taszczy się dodatkowo LM trzeba spalić go więcej. Przy Apollo 8 nie było LM, więc paliwa było więcej na powrót, co przekładałoby się na większą prędkość. Tak się jednak nie stało.
Jedyne co mi przychodzi do głowy to inna trajektoria wejścia w atmosferę.
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A chodzi Ci o uzyskaną prędkość przy opuszczaniu orbity okołoksiężycowej? Bo spadek w polu grawitacyjnym nie zależy od masy. Popatrz na te dwa załączniki.
-załącznik pierwszy pokazuje, że Apollo-8 miał dosyć wysoką prędkość
-z drugiego wynika, że masa pojazdu przed wejściem w atmosferę i przed separacją była jedną z większych.
http://georgetyson.com/files/apollostatistics.pdf
Myślę, że trzeba porównać dV przy opuszczaniu orbity okołoksiężycowej i odległość Ziemia-Księżyc w czasie powrotu.
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Faktycznie. Czyli wynika z tego, że wracał po podobnej trajektorii i przy podobnym dV, a nadmiarowe paliwo pozostało w zbiorniku? Bo tak chyba należałoby tłumaczyć tę nadwyżkę masy?
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http://www.wykop.pl/ramka/1590425/odtajniona-transkrypcja-z-misji-apollo-10-ukazuje-krytyczna-awarie-na-pokladzie/
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http://www.wykop.pl/ramka/1590425/odtajniona-transkrypcja-z-misji-apollo-10-ukazuje-krytyczna-awarie-na-pokladzie/
Ciąg dalszy można sobie doczytać tutaj: ;)
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/AS10_CM.PDF
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Świetne połączenie ujęć z kamery 16mm i audio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdgyreDR4tQ
Ujęcie z incydentu podczas odłączania stopnia lądującego:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw1Wq-0TPCY
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NASA ujawniła wreszcie nagranie księżycowego dźwięku wow. Ciekawe ile jeszcze intrygujących szczegółów programu Apollo mieszczą archiwa agencji.
Michael Collins oblatując Księżyc w Columbii kilka miesięcy później też doświadczył tej nietypowej muzyki.
Pytanie tylko dlaczego ta interferencja między nadajnikami VHF w module lądownika i w module orbitalnym nie została wykryta w czasie naziemnych testów.
Alfred Worden z załogi Apollo 15 ma wątpliwości w sprawie takiego technicznego wyjaśnienia.
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/NASA_releases_strange_music_heard_by_1969_astronauts_999.html
http://www.pulskosmosu.pl/2016/02/22/nasa-ujawnia-dziwna-muzyke-ktora-slyszeli-astronauci-w-1969-roku/
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Zbliżamy się do 50. rocznicy startu Apollo 10 (http://lk.astronautilus.pl/loty/a10.htm).
Misja rozpoczęła się zaledwie 66 dni po wodowaniu kapsuły powrotnej Apollo 9.
Wszyscy załoganci mieli możliwość dwukrotnie odbyć loty na pokładzie statków Apollo, a dwóch z nich nawet dwukrotnie poleciało w kierunku Księżyca.
Dziś z tej załogi jedynie Thomas Stafford żyje.
Po raz drugi ludzie mogli zobaczyć Ziemię w całej okazałości.
May 18, 1969 - Apollo 10 View of the Earth
May 18, 2017
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A view of Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away as photographed from the Apollo 10 spacecraft during its trans-lunar journey toward the moon. (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/may-18-1969-apollo-10-view-of-the-earth
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_10a_Summary.htm
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo10.html
Apollo 10 commander Tom Stafford touches the nose of a stuffed Snoopy before a launch - 1969
https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/aqwlej/apollo_10_commander_tom_stafford_touches_the_nose/
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11.03.1969 Rollout RN Saturn V 505 na wyrzutnię 39B.
11 mars 1969...
Il y a exactement 50 ans, la Saturn V 505 qui doit servir pour la mission Apollo 10 fait son roll-out en direction du Pad 39B.
Apollo 10, mission de répétition pour l'alunissage, s'envolera le 18 mai 1969... (mais nous y reviendrons à ce moment là)
https://x.com/spacemen1969/status/1766965003901440078
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50 Years Ago: One Week to Apollo 10
May 10, 2019
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Apollo 10 astronauts (left to right) Cernan, Young, and Stafford pose in front of their Saturn V
The May 18, 1969, launch of Apollo 10 was only one week away, and the flight crew of Commander Thomas P. Stafford, Lunar Module Pilot Eugene A. Cernan, and Command Module Pilot John W. Young, at the time the most experienced crew to fly in space, was finishing up their training. Apollo 10 was the second crewed flight into lunar orbit and the first to include all components of the Apollo spacecraft. The eight-day mission was a dress rehearsal for the first human lunar landing, scheduled for July 1969, to meet President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. The flight duplicated all aspects of the landing mission with the exception of the landing itself, with Stafford and Cernan aboard their Lunar Module (LM) Snoopy coming within 50,000 feet of the surface while Young waited aboard the Command Module (CM) Charlie Brown. In addition to gaining experience navigating two spacecraft in lunar orbit, the astronauts would take the most detailed photographs yet of the Apollo 11 landing site.
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Launch Control Center Firing Room during the Apollo 10 Countdown Demonstration Test
During the recently completed Countdown Demonstration Test, managers gave final approval to fly a color TV system in the CM. Engineers modified a black-and-white Westinghouse camera with a color wheel. The camera was equipped with a zoom lens and had low-light capability. Engineers added a three-inch monitor providing the cameraman in the spacecraft a black-and-white image of what he’s transmitting. “We hope to be able to share with you some of the experiences and things that go behind the ‘gee whiz’ and ‘golly, isn’t that beautiful,’” said Cernan. Up to 12 transmission opportunities were added to Apollo 10’s flight plan.
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Color TV camera system with monitor
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Apollo 10 astronauts (left to right) Young, Cernan, and Stafford receive a spacecraft systems briefing as launch day approaches
Nearing the end of their training, the Apollo 10 astronauts received their final briefings on spacecraft systems and lunar topography, completed their final simulator runs, and had a little time to relax with NASA managers who began arriving for the launch. Close to launch day, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew paid them a visit and they enjoyed a meal together. The pre-count for the launch began on May 14, with the terminal countdown starting at T-28 hours.
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Apollo 10 astronauts enjoy a light-hearted moment with the Vice-President (left to right) Cernan, Agnew holding a Snoopy doll, Stafford, and Young
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Apollo 10 prime and backup crews enjoy a meal with NASA managers
Looking beyond Apollo 10, workers were preparing for the rollout later in May of the Saturn V for the Apollo 11 mission to Pad 39A. In preparation for that event, inside the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) technicians electrically connected the spacecraft to the rocket for testing. Elsewhere in the VAB, workers stacked the first stage of the Saturn V for the Apollo 12 mission on its Mobile Launch Platform. The upper two stages were on their way to KSC from their assembly plants. The CM and LM for Apollo 12 were undergoing testing in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building.
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Left: Apollo 11 spacecraft being lowered onto the Saturn V’s third stage in April 1969.
Right: First stage of the Saturn V for Apollo 12 being lowered onto the Mobile Launch Platform.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-one-week-to-apollo-10
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The Apollo 9 spacecraft was circling Earth as the Apollo 10 rocket rolled out to the launchpad on March 11, 1969—55 years ago today.
https://x.com/NASAhistory/status/1767294429885284648
RN Saturn V z Apollo 10 dotarła na LC-39B przed startem 18 maja 11.03.1969
Podczas przenoszenia rakiety, transporter gąsienicowy poruszał się z maksymalną prędkością 1 mili na godzinę.🐌
Slow ride. Take it easy…
While the Apollo 9 mission was wrapping up #OTD in 1969, the Apollo 10 rocket made its way to @NASAKennedy
's Launch Pad 39B ahead of its May 18 launch. When carrying a rocket, the crawler-transporter moved at a top speed of 1 mile per hour. 🐌
https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1899460310873911802
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50 Years Ago: Apollo 10 to Sort Out the Unknowns
May 16, 2019
As Commander Thomas P. Stafford stated during a preflight press conference, Apollo 10 was planned to “sort out all the unknowns” to make the Moon landing possible. Stafford, Command Module Pilot (CMP) John W. Young, and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Eugene A. Cernan, were strapped into their Command Module (CM) perched atop a Saturn V rocket and lifted off precisely on time at 12:49 PM EDT on May 18, 1969. Their launch was the first from Pad B at Kennedy Space Center’s (KSC) Launch Complex 39. Their mission was a dress rehearsal for the lunar landing mission, a goal President John F. Kennedy set for the nation eight years earlier. Among the spectators on hand to observe the historic launch were Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, and King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola of Belgium.
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Apollo 10 crew of (left to right) Cernan, Young, and Stafford pose in front of their Saturn V rocket at Launch Pad 39B.
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Apollo 10 crew patch
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Launch of Apollo 10
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Mission Control in Houston during the first day of the Apollo 10 mission: seated in foreground left to right are Flight Directors Lunney and Griffin.
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Barbara Cernan (right) in the Mission Control viewing room, accompanied by Flight Director Lunney
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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-apollo-10-sort-out-unknowns
Apollo 10 Digital Picture Library
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Longitude 148.8 E, Latitude 1.8 S. Scan courtesy NASA Johnson.
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a410/images10.html
https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap10fj/as10-image-library.html
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Honoring Apollo 10 | Apollo Program 50th Anniversary Celebrations
May 18, 2019
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is continuing the Apollo Program’s 50th anniversary celebrations on May 18, the anniversary of the launch of Apollo 10. Each Apollo mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, and the visitor complex is honoring this milestone era in NASA’s history. We are celebrating the 50th anniversary of each launch by handing out an Apollo Mission Commemorative Card Set to guests visiting on the historic launch dates. Each pack will contain mission-specific facts and will include a minimum of five cards depending on the mission.
Apollo 10 commemorative trading cards will only be available on May 18, 2019. Upon arrival, please visit Information or Guest Services to pick up your card set. While visiting, be sure to take the newly updated Kennedy Space Center Bus Tour to the Apollo/Saturn V Center to get up close to the Apollo Program. There, you can experience what an Apollo launch was like, walk under a massive Saturn V Moon rocket, view a Moon rock and more!
Continue your collection while supplies lasts. Please note that daily admission is required to receive this commemorative gift.
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2019/may/event-apollo-10
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Ktoś się może wybiera na świętowanie ?
Kennedy Space Center marks Apollo 50th with mission trading cards
May 17, 2019 — For guests visiting NASA's Kennedy Space Center this weekend, Apollo history is in the cards. (...)
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The Apollo 10 crew of commander Thomas Stafford, command module pilot John Young and lunar module pilot Eugene Cernan were the first and only Apollo astronauts to leave Earth from Launch Complex 39B (http://www.collectspace.com//news/news-091611a.html) and they set the Guinness World Record for the "highest speed attained by a crewed vehicle," accelerating to 24,791 miles per hour (39,897 kilometers per hour) during their return to Earth.
And, as one of the cards in the five-card set reveals, they were also the "first crew to shave in space." (...)
http://www.collectspace.com//news/news-051719a-kennedy-apollo-50th-trading-cards.html
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50 Years Ago: Apollo 10 Passes Countdown Demonstration Test
May 2, 2019
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Apollo 10 astronauts (left to right) Cernan, Stafford, and Young.
Two weeks before the Apollo 10 launch, engineers at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B worked to overcome a problem with the Saturn V rocket’s first stage. On April 28, 1969, a planned power outage to conduct maintenance at the Launch Control Center also caused power to be lost at the launch pad, where not all systems had backup power. The rocket’s first stage was loaded with its flight load of RP-1 fuel, and the loss of power caused the failure of pneumatic controls keeping prevalves at the bottom of the tank closed and the prevalves opened, spilling 5,280 liters of RP-1 fuel onto the launch pad’s flame trench. Since the fuel tank didn’t have any relief valves to allow air to enter the tank as fuel drained out, the loss of fluid volume caused the top of the tank to dimple inward. Quick thinking engineers at the pad instituted a work around to refill the tank and the dimple popped out with a very audible “boomp.” Launch pad manager John J. “Tip” Talone concluded of the quick action, “It worked like a champ.” Concern with any possible cracks in the fuel tank was resolved through non-destructive testing and visual inspections. (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-apollo-10-passes-countdown-demonstration-test
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50 lat temu, 18.05.1969 o 16:49:00,58 UTC z wyrzutni LC-39B w KSC wystartowała RN Saturn V z załogowym statkiem kosmicznym Apollo 10/AS-505 Charlie Brown/Snoopy (http://lk.astronautilus.pl/loty/a10.htm).
1969 May 18 - . 16:49 GMT - . Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Complex: Cape Canaveral LC39B. Launch Platform: LUT3. Launch Vehicle: Saturn V.
Apollo 10 - . Call Sign: Charlie Brown. Crew: Cernan, Stafford, Young. Backup Crew: Cooper, Eisele, Mitchell. Payload: Apollo CSM 106 / Apollo LM 4 / Saturn S-IVB-505N. Mass: 28,870 kg (63,640 lb). Nation: USA. Related Persons: Cernan, Cooper, Eisele, Mitchell, Stafford, Young. Agency: NASA Houston. Program: Apollo. Class: Moon. Type: Manned lunar spacecraft. Flight: Apollo 10. Spacecraft: Apollo CSM. Duration: 8.00 days. Decay Date: 1969-05-26 . USAF Sat Cat: 3941 . COSPAR: 1969-043A. Apogee: 186 km (115 mi). Perigee: 185 km (114 mi). Inclination: 32.50 deg. Period: 88.19 min.
Final dress rehearsal in lunar orbit for landing on moon. LM separated and descended to 10 km from surface of moon but did not land. Apollo 10 (AS-505) - with crew members Thomas P. Stafford, Eugene A. Cernan, and John W. Young aboard - lifted off from Pad B, Launch Complex 39, KSC, at 12:49 p.m. EDT on the first lunar orbital mission with complete spacecraft. The Saturn V's S-IVB stage and the spacecraft were inserted into an earth parking orbit of 189.9 by 184.4 kilometers while the onboard systems were checked. The S-IVB engine was then ignited at 3:19 p.m. EDT to place the spacecraft in a trajectory toward the moon. One-half hour later the CSM separated from the S-IVB, transposed, and docked with the lunar module. At 4:29 p.m. the docked spacecraft were ejected, a separation maneuver was performed, and the S-IVB was placed in a solar orbit by venting residual propellants. TV coverage of docking procedures was transmitted to the Goldstone, Calif., tracking station for worldwide, commercial viewing.
On May 19 the crew elected not to make the first of a series of midcourse maneuvers. A second preplanned midcourse correction that adjusted the trajectory to coincide with a July lunar landing trajectory was executed at 3:19 p.m. The maneuver was so accurate that preplanned third and fourth midcourse corrections were canceled. During the translunar coast, five color TV transmissions totaling 72 minutes were made of the spacecraft and the earth.
At 4:49 p.m. EDT on May 21 the spacecraft was inserted into a lunar orbit of 110.4 by 315.5 kilometers. After two revolutions of tracking and ground updates, a maneuver circularized the orbit at 109.1 by 113.9 kilometers. Astronaut Cernan then entered the LM, checked all systems, and returned to the CM for the scheduled sleep period.
On May 22 activation of the lunar module systems began at 11:49 a.m. EDT. At 2:04 p.m. the spacecraft were undocked and at 4:34 p.m. the LM was inserted into a descent orbit. One hour later the LM made a low-level pass at an altitude of 15.4 kilometers over the planned site for the first lunar landing. The test included a test of the landing radar, visual observation of lunar lighting, stereo photography of the moon, and execution of a phasing maneuver using the descent engine. The lunar module returned to dock successfully with the CSM following the eight-hour separation, and the LM crew returned to the CSM.
The LM ascent stage was jettisoned, its batteries were burned to depletion, and it was placed in a solar orbit on May 23. The crew then prepared for the return trip to earth and after 61.5 hours in lunar orbit a service propulsion system TEI burn injected the CSM into a trajectory toward the earth. During the return trip the astronauts made star-lunar landmark sightings, star-earth horizon navigation sightings, and live television transmissions.
Apollo 10 LM - . Call Sign: Snoopy. Payload: Apollo LM 4. Mass: 13,941 kg (30,734 lb). Nation: USA. Agency: NASA Houston. Program: Apollo. Class: Moon. Type: Manned lunar spacecraft. Flight: Apollo 10. Spacecraft: Apollo LM. Duration: 8.00 days. Decay Date: 1969-05-26 . USAF Sat Cat: 3941 . COSPAR: 1969-043x. Apogee: 186 km (115 mi). Perigee: 185 km (114 mi). Inclination: 32.50 deg. Period: 88.19 min.
http://www.astronautix.com/m/may18.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb0bV5CPIUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eeF4BxjMIM
Apollo 10 Launches Into History on May 18, 1969
May 17, 2019
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Apollo 10 launch Image Credit: NASA
When Apollo 10 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo10.html) launched on May 18, 1969, it was the fifth launch of the Saturn V. It carried Mission Commander Thomas Stafford (https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/stafford_thomas.pdf), command module pilot John Young (https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/young_john.pdf) and lunar module pilot Eugene Cernan (https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/_cernan_eugene_a._deceased_pdf_75_kb_.pdf) to the Moon. The crew performed the first lunar orbit rendezvous, and the lunar landing mission profile was performed except for powered descent, landing and ascent of the lunar module. The mission objectives were to rehearse all the steps and reproduce all the events of the Apollo 11, the first lunar landing mission, with the exception of the lunar touchdown, stay and liftoff.
The mission transmitted the first live color television transmissions to Earth, which began three hours after launch when Apollo 10 was 3,570 miles from Earth.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/apollo-10-launches-into-history-on-may-18-1969
#OTD in 1969, the crew of Apollo 10 (Gene Cernan, John Young, and Tom Stafford) launched on a mission nearly identical to #Apollo11 with one exception: they didn't land on the Moon. Learn more about the mission: http://s.si.edu/3FU9PsZ
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1659269618370846741
NASA History Office @NASAhistory 6:30 PM · May 18, 2024
In the White Room at Pad B, Tom Stafford (left) and Gene Cernan (right) are seen preparing to enter their spacecraft. John Young is out of view in this photo.
Mission officials work together from the Launch Control Center's Firing Room 3 at @NASAKennedy during the prelaunch activities.
Stay tuned for more Apollo 10 moments as we celebrate the 55th anniversary of the mission! https://go.nasa.gov/4bmb8jo
https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1791868898796528100
NASA History Office @NASAhistory 4:00 PM · May 18, 2023
The dress rehearsal for landing the first astronauts on the Moon
#OTD in 1969, Apollo 10 astronauts Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan, and John Young launched to the Moon. The crew rehearsed all aspects of a lunar landing mission, except for the landing. https://go.nasa.gov/4542N0K
https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1659197160834105344
Apollo 10
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/apollo-10/
18 May 2025 10:24 CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de
As the #Apollo10 crew walks along a corridor on the way to Launch Complex 39B, mission commander Thomas P. Stafford pats the nose of Snoopy, the mission's mascot, held by Jamye Flowers, astronaut Gordon Coopers' secretary.
May 18, 1969
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18 maja 1969 astronauci Apollo 10 sfotografowali Ziemię:
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https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/may-18-1969-apollo-10-view-of-the-earth/
Celebrując 50 lecie Apollo 10 wstawiłem to zdjęcie do swojego forumowego avatara :)
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18 maja 1969 astronauci Apollo 10 sfotografowali Ziemię:
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https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/may-18-1969-apollo-10-view-of-the-earth/
Celebrując 50 lecie Apollo 10 wstawiłem to zdjęcie do swojego forumowego avatara :)
Wcześniej to zdjęcie pojawiło się już w wątku :)
http://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=102.msg129546#msg129546
Warto też wspomnieć, że poleciała wówczas załoga o największym wtedy kosmicznym doświadczeniu w amerykańskim programie kosmicznym.
Apollo 10
(...) The Apollo 10 crew was the first in the U.S. space-flight program to consist entirely of experienced astronauts. Commander Thomas P. Stafford and command-module pilot John W. Young had each flown two missions in Earth orbit as part of the Gemini program; lunar-module pilot Eugene A. Cernan had flown one. (...)
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/apollo-10/in-depth/
Więcej o misji Apollo 10: Artykuły astronautyczne (https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3643.msg132218#msg132218)
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Astro Info Service @aisoffice 9:15 AM · May 18, 2023
In a final dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing attempt, Apollo 10 (F mission) launched OTD in 1969. Cernan later wrote that he had been stopped for speeding the previous day after returning from a late visit with his family & it took some convincing to prevent his arrest.
https://twitter.com/aisoffice/status/1659095289230180352
NASA History Office @NASAhistory 7:00 PM · May 18, 2024
Buckle up!
The Apollo 10 crew experienced intense pogo oscillations after liftoff. Tom Stafford described them: "It was approximately 4 cycles and we were slammed forward, back, forward, back, forward, and back."
Learn more about the pogo effect: https://go.nasa.gov/3wpGiHr
https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1791876404910420401
18 May 1969. 16.49.00 UTC/GMT. Launch of Apollo 10 from Kennedy LC-39B. Fourth manned American Apollo space program mission. A 'F' mission, dress rehearsal for the first Moon landing. Testing all the components and procedures short of actually landing.
https://twitter.com/ron_eisele/status/1791576583037128859
CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de 18 May 2025 10:25
Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, Building 30, on the first day of the #Apollo10 lunar orbit mission. May 18, 1969
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Nieco innych zdjęć Ziemi wykonanych w czasie tamtej wyprawy:
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AS10-34-5010 Earth immediately after TLI. 80mm
Apollo 10 View of the Earth
May 18, 2016
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AS10-34-5026 (18-26 May 1969) --- An Apollo 10 photograph of Earth taken from 100,000 miles away. Visible are many areas of Europe and Africa. Among the features and countries identifiable are Portugal, Spain, Italy, the Mediterranean Sea, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, the Black Sea, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Sinai Peninsula, the Nile Delta, Lake Chad, and South Africa.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/apollo-10-view-of-the-earth
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AS10-27-3888 (306k )
Earthrise from lunar orbit. Possibly the first after Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI). The first Apollo 10 Earthrise was at about GET 76 hr 24 min or 2113 UTC/GMT on 21 May 1969. A starry Night view of earth from 100 km above the lunar equator at longitude 105 E, gives a reasonably good match with Greenland recognizable in 3888 just above the terminator on the right. Scan courtesy NASA Johnson.
Apollo 10 Earth Rise
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AS10-27-3895 Earthrise, Lunar-Earth Sequence. Apollo 10. 1969.
https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/5409hjpg?id=5409
https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/21300598393
National Air and Space Museum @airandspace 6:45 PM · May 24, 2023
On this day in 1969, the Apollo 10 astronauts began their return journey from the Moon back to Earth in command module "Charlie Brown."
This photo of Earth rising above the lunar horizon was taken during the mission.
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1661413029056053248
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Command Module, Apollo 10
Apollo 10 with Command Module 106, Charlie Brown, with was launched on May 18, 1969, atop a Saturn V rocket. The crew consisted of Commander Tom Stafford, Command Module Pilot John Young, and Lunar Module Pilot Eugene Cernan. The mission was a dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 landing on the moon and was the first time the Lunar Module was tested in lunar orbit. Once in lunar orbit, Stafford and Cernan flew the LM "Snoopy" to within 14.5 km of the lunar surface but, instead of landing, they performed a planned simulated abort which carried them away from the moon. Apollo 10 orbited the moon 31 times before returning to Earth. "Charlie Brown" landed in the Pacific Ocean on May 26. The success of the mission was the last step before the culmination of the dream, a manned landing on the moon the following July.
Accountability for Command Module 106 was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution in April 1970 just prior to its shipment to Europe for a display tour under the auspices of the United States Information Agency. Following display in several counties (including the USSR, France and the Netherlands), in 1978 the spacecraft was place on loan to the London Science Museum, where it has remained on public display.
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/command-module-apollo-10
Stephane SEBILE @spacemen1969 12:05 AM · May 18, 2024
18 mai 1969
55 ans d'Apollo 10😉
18 mai 1969...
Apollo 10 s'envole vers la Lune pour une répétition générale
La capsule Charlie Brown est la seule capsule Apollo visible en Europe et elle
https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/1791590770006507700
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Dzięki za fotki Orionidzie. W swoim avatarze zmieniłem fotkę Ziemi z widoczną Afryką i resztą naszej półkuli ;)
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Jim Bridenstine@JimBridenstine 18 maj 2019
I had the honor of celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 10 at the @StaffordMuseum with the legend himself, General Tom Stafford. The risks Stafford took with John Young and Gene Cernan are what made Apollo 11 possible. All our Apollo astronauts are true American heroes.
https://twitter.com/JimBridenstine/status/1129931270887268352
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CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de 18 May 2025 10:25
enjoy a pre-launch breakfast of steak and eggs on the morning of the launch of #Apollo10
May 18, 1969
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CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de 18 May 2025 10:26
#Apollo10 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on May 18, 1969 - just two months before Apollo 11’s launch - as part of the Apollo program leading up to the lunar landing.
Its mission? To provide a thorough test of all the processes, but without performing the landing itself.
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Astronaut Tom Stafford Receives Lifetime Space Achievement Award
April 9, 2019
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General William Shelton awards General Thomas Patten Stafford, former NASA astronaut, Air Force officer and test pilot the General James E. Hill Lifetime Achievement Award, at the Space Symposium, Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at Broadmoor Hall in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Former and current NASA Administrators were in attendance. Credits: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
(...) About his time in space, Stafford said, "It changes you … As you look back, you see a little blue and white baseball, actually it’s smaller than a baseball. But it’s hard to envision that is where all the people you’ve known all your life are, where you went to school, your friends, your family. It’s also hard to envision that there are three billion people on that blue and white baseball." (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/astronaut-tom-stafford-receives-lifetime-space-achievement-award
https://www.spacefoundation.org/2018/11/09/space-foundation-board-selects-former-nasa-astronaut-lt-gen-thomas-p-stafford-to-receive-the-2019-general-james-e-hill-lifetime-space-achievement-award/
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NASA and Peanuts Celebrate Apollo 10’s 50th Anniversary
May 18, 2019
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The agency’s Silver Snoopy award is given by NASA astronauts to employees and contractors for outstanding achievements related to human flight safety or mission success. Credits: NASA
(...) Peanuts has also teamed with Apple TV to present a 10-minute feature that includes archival interviews of two of the three Apollo 10 astronauts, Tom Stafford and Eugene Cernan, as well as an interview with current NASA flight director, Ginger Kerrick. This featurette presents a light-hearted look at Apollo 10 from the imagination of Documentarian Morgan Neville and starring Jeff Goldblum and Ron Howard, playing themselves. The short feature, Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10, is being released on the anniversary of the Apollo 10 launch.
NASA has shared a proud association with Charles M. Schulz and his American icon Snoopy since Apollo missions began in the 1960s. Schulz created comic strips depicting Snoopy on the Moon, capturing public excitement about America’s achievements in space. In May 1969, Apollo 10 astronauts traveled to the Moon for a final checkout before lunar landings on later missions. Because the mission required the lunar module to skim the Moon’s surface to within 50,000 feet and “snoop around” scouting the Apollo 11 landing site, the crew named the lunar module Snoopy. The command module was named Charlie Brown, Snoopy’s loyal owner. (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-and-peanuts-celebrate-apollo-10-s-50th-anniversary
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CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de 19 May 2025 20:11
#OTD May 19, 1969 #Apollo10 Snoopy as seen from Charlie Brown, prior to docking.
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CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de 20 May 2025 22:04
“I keep telling Neil Armstrong that we painted that white line in the sky all the way to the moon."
— Eugene Cernan
May 22, 1969, #Apollo10 astronauts descended to within 9 miles of the lunar surface—the closest approach to the Moon until #Apollo11.
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Apollo 10 – 50 lat temu
BY KRZYSZTOF KANAWKA ON 24 MAJA 2019
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Logo misji Apollo 10 / Credits - NASA
Mija właśnie 50 lat od misji Apollo 10 – “ostatniego testu” przed historycznym lądowaniem człowieka na Srebrnym Globie.
Celem misji Apollo 10 było przetestowanie lądownika księżycowego oraz procedur lądowania na Srebrnym Globie. Misja Apollo 10 odbywała się w dniach 18 – 26 maja 1969, z czego w dniach 21 – 24 maja 1969 statek Apollo oraz lądownik LM przebywał na orbicie Księżyca. Misja zakończyła się sukcesem i otworzyła drogę do załogowego lądowania, które nastąpiło w lipcu 1969 roku.
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Jedno ze zdjęć Księżyca wykonane podczas misji Apollo 10 / Credits – NASA
Ponadto, oprócz testów lądownika księżycowego, w trakcie misji Apollo 10 wykonano setki zdjęć Srebrnego Globu. Te zdjęcia posłużyły do dokładnego planowania kolejnych misji programu Apollo, w szczególności etapu lądowania na Księżycu. Dzięki temu udało się m.in. ograniczyć wielkość elipsy lądowania dla misji Apollo 11.
Misja Apollo 10 wykonała w około 70% zakładane cele fotograficzne na tę wyprawę. Udało się m.in. uzyskać dużą ilość fotografii drugiej strony Księżyca, w tym obszarów, które dotychczas były niewystarczająco dobrze sfotografowane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq8cyvmJMNQ
Pięćdziesiąta rocznica misji Apollo 10 / Credits – NASA
W trakcie tej misji lądownik LM zbliżył się do powierzchni Księżyca na minimalną odległość 15,6 km. Nie wszystko jednak przebiegło w tej misji planowo – przykładowo doszło do nieoczekiwanego obrotu części powrotnej lądownika LM po separacji członów. Późniejsza analiza wykazała, że było bardzo blisko do utraty kontroli nad tym segmentem lądownika, co w konsekwencji doprowadziłoby do uderzenia w powierzchnię Księżyca i śmierci dwóch astronautów.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUYDbDlGXqo
Materiał z 16 mm kamery – misja Apollo 10 / Credits – NASA
Z załogi misji Apollo 10 żyje dziś tylko Thomas Stafford – dowódca misji. John Young zmarł w 2018 (https://kosmonauta.net/2018/01/john-young-1930-2018/) roku, zaś Eugene Cernan odszedł w 2017 (https://kosmonauta.net/2017/01/zmarl-ostatni-czlowiek-na-ksiezycu/) roku.
(NASA)
https://kosmonauta.net/2019/05/apollo-10-50-lat-temu/
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CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de 18 May 2025 10:27
When #Apollo10 launched on May 18, 1969, it was the fifth launch of the Saturn V. It carried Mission Commander Thomas Stafford, command module pilot John Young and lunar module pilot Eugene Cernan to the Moon.
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CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de 18 May2025 10:28
May 18, 1969, 16:49:00 UTC: Launch of Apollo 10 from LC-39B, this was the first use of 39B and the only Saturn V to launch from it.
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CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de 18 May 2025 10:29
May 18, 1969: #Apollo10 launch, 16:49:00 UTC
It was the F mission: a "dress rehearsal" for the 1st Moon landing, testing all the components and procedures just short of actually landing.
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Stephane SEBILE @spacemen1969
18 mai 1969
Il y a 56 ans, on n'oublie pas Apollo 10 😉
https://x.com/spacemen1969/status/1923863415707123838
https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/1923863415707123838
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Drugi załogowy start w kierunku Księżyca w odstępie 4m 28d.
Stephane SEBILE @spacemen1969 12:04 AM · May 18, 2024
18 mai 1969
55 ans Apollo 10 (replongez dans ce petit thread à dérouler 😉)
Stephane SEBILE @spacemen1969·May 19, 2019
50 ans de la mission Apollo 10 (18 au 26 mai 1969)
Petit clin d'oeil philatélique 😉😉😉
C'est donc à 16h49 (UTC) que la Saturn V emporant Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan et John Young s'envole vers la Lune pour la mission Apollo 10 qui sera la répétition générale d'Apollo 11
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Association of Space Explorers @ASE_Astronauts 9:00 PM · May 18, 2024
#OTD 55 years ago ✨
Apollo 10 launched on May 18, 1969, with ASE members Eugene Cernan and Thomas Stafford aboard!
To learn more, check out the mission page from @NASA: https://nasa.gov/mission/apollo-10/
https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1791906824955773259
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Apollo 10 była pierwszą misją, w czasie której zastosowano przekaz telewizyjny w kolorze.
Apollo 10: Mission Details
NASA Jul 08, 2009
(...) The first live color TV transmissions to Earth began three hours after launch when Apollo 10 was 3,570 miles from Earth and concluded when the spacecraft was 9,428 miles away. The transmission showed the docking process and the interior of the CSM. About four hours after launch, Apollo 10 separated from the S-IVB sage, which was followed by another telecast from 14,625 miles out. A third TV transmission of pictures of Earth was made from 24,183 miles out, and a fourth telecast of the Earth was made from 140,000 miles. (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/apollo/apollo-10-mission-details/
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=102.msg71878#msg71878
NASA History Office @NASAhistory 10:00 PM · May 20, 2024
Apollo 10 was the first mission to broadcast a color television signal from space, allowing mission control and the public to view the mission in living color.
📹 Images from their TV broadcasts: a view of Earth and John Young displaying a drawing of Snoopy
https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1792646487676989600
Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the other crewmen of #Apollo10 on her way to the Moon.
May 19, 1969
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21.05.1969 Apollo 10 wszedł na orbitę wokółksiężycową.
NASA History Office @NASAhistory 4:30 PM · May 21, 2024
On Apollo 10's way to the Moon in 1969, a cloud of fiberglass particles was released into the spacecraft after a cover in the command module's tunnel hatch was torn. Commander Tom Stafford recalled, "The particles itched like hell and it took us hours to clean up what we could."
https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1792925868781621733
Astro Info Service @aisoffice 9:25 AM · May 21, 2023
About 76 hours into the Apollo 10 mission, OTD in 1969, the SPS engine fires to place the spacecraft in lunar orbit. Later, the orbit was circularised, candidate landing site landmarks & surface features were photographed, the LM was checked & a color TV broadcast was conducted
https://x.com/aisoffice/status/1660185114091876353
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fajne materiały
A wiecie coś o tym - https://dekorit.pl/plytki-c-402.html ?
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fajne materiały
Fajne nie jest, że wiele zdjęć jest niedostępnych na poniższej stronie.
https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/photos/as10-image-library.htm
Dla przypomnienia kilka charakterystycznych szczegółów misji
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=102.msg132461#msg132461
Mamy 56. rocznicę misji, ale 2. bez żadnego żyjącego załoganta.
Niewielu jest dzisiaj aktywnych astronautów oglądających start tej misji na żywo.
Można się zastanawiać, jak oryginalna będzie załoga AX-4 przy nadawaniu nazwy nowemu statkowi kosmicznemu.
2 dni po starcie Apollo 10 zestaw Saturn V SA-506/CSM 107 „Columbia” i LM-5 „Eagle” wyruszył na wyrzutnię.
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=184.msg132286#msg132286
50 Years Ago: Charlie Brown and Snoopy in Lunar Orbit
John Uri Johnson Space Center May 21, 2019
Following a trouble-free three-day journey from Earth, Apollo 10 slipped behind the Moon, and communications with Mission Control was temporarily cut off. The Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) maneuver, a six–minute firing of the Service Propulsion System (SPS) engine, took place behind the Moon. Only the crew, Commander Thomas P. Stafford, Lunar Module Pilot Eugene A. Cernan, and Command Module Pilot John W. Young, at first knew that the burn was completely successful, placing Apollo 10 into an elliptical 69- by 196-mile orbit around the Moon. As Apollo 10 rounded the backside of the Moon and communications were restored, Stafford radioed to Mission Control, “You can tell the world that we have arrived.” (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-charlie-brown-and-snoopy-in-lunar-orbit/
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Stephane SEBILE @spacemen1969 12:09 AM · May 21, 2024
21 mai 1969
En orbite autour de la Lune...
https://x.com/spacemen1969/status/1792678939673952539
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CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de 19 maja 2025 20:14
NASA's mission control crew passing time during #Apollo10's three day coast to the moon - May 19, 1969
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