Apollo 10's lunar module, Snoopy, is still out there, drifting aimlessly around the solar system, waiting for some future exo-archaeologist to snatch it up for display at the Smithsonian.
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 ...
Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...
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 ...
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 ...
This device, designed by TRW, Inc., is a backup to the Apollo Guidance Computer that was installed on the Lunar Module. If needed ... at least twice during the Apollo program: on the Apollo 10 and ...
NASA's requested funding was spent on the Great Society, including building rapid transit system in several cities ...
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 ...
The Apollo Lunar Module (LM) was a two-stage vehicle designed to ferry two ... flights would be outfitted with lunar roving vehicles, LM 9 was replaced with LM 10, a version modified to carry the ...
Saturn V rockets launched 10 of the moon ships into deep space ... It was a backup for Apollo 5: the first test flight of a lunar module. Apollo 5 wound up being so successful in taking LM ...