Apollo 10 - Suit-Up, Transfer To Launch Pad & Spacecraft Egress (May 18, 1969)

Footage of Astronaut Suit-Up, the transfer to the launch pad & Spacecraft egress of the Apollo 10 on May 18, 1969.

Crew :

Apollo 10 - May 18 - 26, 1969
Lunar Orbital

Crew :
Thomas Stafford (Gemini 6A, Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo-Soyuz Test Project)
Commander

Eugene Cernan (Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo 17)
Lunar Module Pilot

John Young (Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9)
Command Module Pilot

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• National
• Aeronautics
• and
• Space
• Administration
• NASA
• Project
• Apollo
• 10
• Astronauts
• Pilot
• Crew
• Thomas
• Stafford
• Eugene
• Cernan
• John
• Young

[SR71U2ube]

0:19 Snoopy caps are awesome. I wish they would bring back the old black and white cap.

[NCHCITY]

John Young (Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9) His Cool Job

[RickyboyH]

@SR71U2ube They are actually brown and white, and they are still in use. Astronauts performing spacewalks in the US EMU (extravehicular mobility unit) still use the CCA (communications carrier assembly) .. It looks identical to the "old" CCA but I would guess that they have upgraded the microphones and speakers since the 60s & 70s.

[SR71U2ube]

@A86 I know those suits just said USA all over!!! Im actually kinda happy the shuttle is done. now it might inspire our renewed Nasa to be bold again. im sure they learned plenty about orbital spaceplanes in the last 30 years to be happy. It is time to jump into the deep Ocean of space again! I hope they bring back the caps to go with it lol. The orange launching suits looked okay to me but the black an white caps would go along way to make them look cooler!

[A86]

@SR71U2ube - Hell yeah! I don't know why but I always thought those things looked badass. That was one minor thing that bugged me about the Shuttle program - the suits didn't look as epic to me. The Apollo suit just screams "Epic" for some reason, at least to me. I hope they design the Orion suits to look like updated versions of the Apollo ones or a crossover of the Apollo and Shuttle suits.

[AroundSun]

They were some real space cadet's huh!

[marvchomer]

This video is making my nose itch! LOL--these guys were awesome.

[hckyplyr90]

I don't know too much about Gen. Stafford's personality, other than that it was pretty dry Great Plains Okie type, but that dude just might be my favorite all time astronaut. He was possibly THE most technically qualified and accomplished astronaut of that era. I've always thought he looked like he has a wallet that says 'BAD MUTHA' I like John Young alot, too, but he's just so dang focuses and kinda geeky....I like Stafford better. Geno is too political for me.