Apollo 40th Anniversary - Apollo 10 Animation

Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the Apollo program. The mission included the second crew to orbit the Moon and an all-up test of the lunar module (LM) in lunar orbit. The LM came to within 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) of the lunar surface during practice maneuvers.

The crew consisted of Commander Thomas Stafford, Command Module Pilot John Young & Lunar Module Pilot Gene Cernan.


Shortly after leaving low Earth orbit, the command/service module separated from the S-IVB stage, turned around, and docked its nose to the top of the lunar module still nestled in the S-IVB. The CSM/LM stack then separated from the S-IVB for the trip to the moon.

Upon reaching lunar orbit, Young remained alone in command module Charlie Brown while Stafford and Cernan flew separately in the LM. They surveyed the Apollo 11 landing site in the Sea of Tranquility. The lunar module on this flight was not equipped to land, however.

According to the 2001 Guinness World Records Apollo 10 set the record for the highest speed attained by a manned vehicle at 39,897 km/h (11.08 km/s or 24,791 mph). The speed record was set during the return from the Moon on May 26, 1969.

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[humtingify]

Lol its kinds fiunny because my teachers name is Young and i think er husbands name is Jhon....... lol

[loperspest]

@Joxu609

If you ever seen 50's television animation, this qualifies. ;-)

[Joxu609]

thats not animation ffs