What did Apollo 10 do?

Apollo 10 was the fourth crewed mission in the Apollo Program
Apollo Program
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in preparing and landing the first humans on the Moon from 1968 to 1972.
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and the second mission to orbit the Moon. The mission served as a “dress rehearsal” for the first Moon landing, testing the components and procedures. It encompassed all aspects of an actual crewed lunar landing, except the landing.
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What did Apollo 10 do on the Moon?

Apollo 10's purpose was to do a full dress rehearsal of the lunar landing, so they effectively carried out a practice run on the Sea of Tranquility landing site, including photographing the landmarks, seeing when the various craters came up, carrying out every maneuver short of firing the descent engine for the descent ...
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What did Apollo 10 achieve?

The Apollo 10 mission encompassed all aspects of an actual crewed lunar landing, except the landing. It was the first flight of a complete, crewed Apollo spacecraft to operate around the Moon.
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Did Apollo 10 fail?

The rest of Apollo 10's mission passed without incident, right up to splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on May 26. Despite the spin out incident, Apollo 10 was considered sufficiently successful that NASA chose to go for a landing with the next mission, Apollo 11.
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How close to the Moon did Apollo 10 get?

After a three-day cruise, Apollo 10 entered lunar orbit. On the mission's fourth day, Stafford and Cernan entered the lunar module, undocked it from the command module, and began their descent. They dropped to within 47,000 feet (about 14 kilometers) of the lunar surface, tantalizingly close.
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What did Apollo 10 hear on dark side of the moon?



Which Apollo crashed on the Moon?

Everyone knows the story of Apollo 11 landing on the moon, but fewer know about Luna 15: The Soviet lunar lander that was busy crashing into the moon's surface as America's astronauts toured the Sea of Tranquility.
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Where is Apollo 10 now?

Astronauts Thomas Stafford, John Young, and Gene Cernan called their Command Module “Charlie Brown” and their Lunar Module “Snoopy” after the famous Peanuts comic characters. You can see the Apollo 10 Command Module at the Science Museum in London, England.
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Where is the Apollo 10 capsule?

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.
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Was there an Apollo 9 or 10?

It fell to the crew of Apollo 9 in March 1969, to fly the first test mission of the lander into space, spending 10 days in Earth orbit. The stage was set, then for a full dress rehearsal by the next crew to the launchpad.
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Did Snoopy go to space?

Snoopy's first flight to space was in 1990 when he was able to catch a ride on the space shuttle Columbia during the STS-32 mission. The agency's Silver Snoopy award was created during the Apollo era and remains to this day.
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Is the Apollo 11 Eagle still in orbit?

After the crew re-boarded Columbia, the Eagle was abandoned in lunar orbit. Although its ultimate fate remains unknown, some calculations by the physicist James Meador published in 2021 showed that Eagle could theoretically still be in lunar orbit.
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Is Aquarius still floating in space?

Aquarius burned up in Earth's atmosphere, the only part of the module to survive is the hardened module that contained the radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) that would have been used on the lunar surface for Apollo 13's Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package. Come back later today for splashdown!
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Is Apollo 13 still in space?

Apollo 13 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on 17 April 1970 at 18:07:41 UT (1:07:41 p.m. EST) after a mission elapsed time of 142 hrs, 54 mins, 41 secs.
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What went wrong with Apollo 13?

The Apollo 13 malfunction was caused by an explosion and rupture of oxygen tank no. 2 in the service module. The explosion ruptured a line or damaged a valve in the no. 1 oxygen tank, causing it to lose oxygen rapidly.
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Which Apollo blew up and killed?

The Apollo 1 fire that killed three was on Jan. 27, 1967, while the Columbia disaster that killed seven happened on Feb. 1, 2003.
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Did Apollo 23 explode?

Rocket. Apollo 23 was an aborted mission as the Saturn V was destroyed before launch on August 24, 1974 in an explosion that killed 12 NASA staff, including Gene Kranz.
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What happened Buzz Aldrin?

Aldrin retired from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1971 to become commandant of the Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California. In March 1972 he retired from the air force to enter private business.
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How did the 3 astronauts died in space?

Veteran space pilots Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, 40, and Edward H. White, 36, and rookie Roger Chaffee, 31, died in flames while lying on their backs in their moonship in a routine ground test for their Feb. 21 orbital flight.
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Was there an Apollo 13?

Apollo 13, U.S. spaceflight, launched on April 11, 1970, that suffered an oxygen tank explosion en route to the Moon, threatening the lives of three astronauts—commander Jim Lovell, lunar module pilot Fred Haise, and command module pilot Jack Swigert.
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Who died on Apollo 13?

Apollo 13 crew

The Apollo 13 astronauts were commander James Lovell, lunar module pilot Fred Haise, and command module pilot John "Jack" Swigert.
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