Apollo 10 is a largely unsung mission ... the astronauts dubbed the command module Charlie Brown and the lunar module Snoopy. As it happened, some four days into the mission, the crew took ...

Apollo 10's Lunar Module, which went to the Moon but didn't land, was jettisoned into space and went into orbit around the Sun. Astronomers recently disclosed they were "98% sure" they had located ...

Audio clip: Charlie Brown was selected by the astronauts as the codename for the Apollo 10 command module and his friend Snoopy was the call sign for the lunar module. Mosher: NASA launched 10 of ...

From +4 days, 14 hours, 35 minutes to +4 days, 18 hours, 10 minutes, there is no transcription of voice communication between the Apollo 12 lunar module and the ground. Click to embiggen ...

SPACE landing is incredible, imagining boarding a rocket and leaving planet Earth to land on another planet is a euphoric out ...

Apollo 10 tested the equipment in the moon's orbit. During the eight-day mission beginning on May 18, 1969, Tom Stafford, commander, and Gene Cernan, Lunar Module pilot, came within 50,000 feet of ...

The Apollo IX mission test-flew the command module and lunar module together in Earth orbit ... however, and the 10-degree incline of the landing spot was the best the crew was able to find.

The main purpose of this mission was to test out the first crewed lunar module, nicknamed "Spider ... who tested the pivotal ...

The command module could carry three astronauts ... The missions of Apollos 7, 8, 9, and 10 tested equipment in Earth and lunar orbit, but Apollo 11 was slated to land on the moon.

Provided all goes well with Apollo 10 and lunar orbit checkout of the lunar module’s radar and guidance systems, the Apollo 11 rocket and spacecraft will complete just under two months of pad ...