Apollo 10, NASA's crewed lunar-orbit dress rehearsal for Apollo 11, with CSM Charlie Brown and LM Snoopy. Saturn V SA-505 from KSC LC-39B on 18 May 1969 flew Stafford, Young, and Cernan; first full Apollo stack test in lunar orbit, LM descent to ~15 km over the planned landing site.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 42.7 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 13 Saturn V flights
- Date and time
- 18 May 1969, 16:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Saturn V
- Builder
- Boeing / North American / Douglas
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1969-043
- Launches in 1969
- 50th of 125
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