Space Rocket History #198 – Apollo 10 – Snoopy Returns and a Successful Dress Rehearsal
“Hey, Apollo – Houston, this is Apollo 10. Look, I know you ran some studies, but by golly, we can see Snoopy, and he isn’t too far away! He’s catchin...
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Space Rocket History #197 – Apollo 10 – Ascent Stage Rendezvous, Docking & Jettisoning
As the lunar module approached, Young saw it through his sextant at a distance of 259 kilometers. Stafford and Cernan got a radar lock on the command ...
Space Rocket History #196 – Apollo 10 – Lunar Module Out of Control
The abort system had two basic control modes, “attitude hold” and “automatic.” In automatic, the computer would take over the guidance and start looki...
Space Rocket History #195 – Apollo 10 – Lunar Module Testing
When Stafford and Cernan were ready for undocking they discovered the Lunar Module had slipped three and a half degrees out of line with the command m...
Space Rocket History #194 – Apollo 10 – Acquisition of Signal & Lunar Orbit
The six-minute retrograde maneuver seemed interminable, just as it had to Borman’s crew on Apollo 8, but the engine kept firing and the Apollo 10 crew...
Space Rocket History #193 – Apollo 10 – Coasting to the Moon & Loss of Signal
Stafford, Cernan, and Young were the first Apollo astronauts to be free from illness during the mission, although Cernan experienced a slight vestibul...
Space Rocket History #192 – Apollo 10 – Translunar Injection & First Docking
After a shaky but successful S-IVB burn Apollo 10 was on the way to the Moon. Now the first order of business was for John Young to move to the comman...
Space Rocket History #191 – Apollo 10 – The Climb to Orbit
At first stage cutoff the astronauts expected to encounter a single pulse of negative G and the crew would be thrown forward in their straps before th...
Space Rocket History #190 – Apollo 10 – The Launch
On May 18th 1969, a king, some congressmen, other distinguished guests, and a hundred thousand other watchers waited at scattered vantage points aroun...
Space Rocket History #189 – John Glenn Remembered
With the passing of John Glenn last week, I thought it would be appropriate to pause my coverage of Apollo 10 for a week and create an episode that ce...