Apollo 10, the Mission That Got So Close to Landing on the Moon

Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan, and John Young went through a full lunar landing mission ... with the notable exception of actually landing on the surface.

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By Amy Shira Teitel
May 11, 2019 8:32 PMMar 21, 2020 12:09 AM
Apollo 10 Crew - NASA
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Apollo 10 doesn’t get much attention. On the rare occasion people talk about the mission right before the first lunar landing, it’s lumped into the “pre-Apollo 11” category and dismissed as one of the stepping stones on the bridge to the Moon. But it was far more interesting than just a mission that preceded Apollo 11.

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