On May 18, 1969, Apollo 10 lifted off. Its mission: to return to the Moon and pave the way for the Apollo 11 lunar landing two months later. Fifty years ago and a quarter of a million miles away, ...

Apollo 10 was a crewed lunar landing mission, minus the landing. Launched from Cape Kennedy on May 18, 1969, Apollo 10 was the fourth manned Apollo launch in seven months, and it became the second ...

Apollo 10 launched to the moon on May 18, 1969 for a mission NASA called a dress rehearsal for the moon landings. In this photo, the Apollo 10 space vehicle — consisting of Spacecraft 106, Lunar ...

This NASA film documents the May 18 to May 26, 1969, Apollo mission with astronauts Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan, and John Young. A rehearsal for the July, 1969, moon landing, the mission tested ...

In ‘Apollo 10 1/2,’ director Richard Linklater charmingly chronicles life in 1969 Houston And yet as with most Linklater joints, it’s so sincere and so sweetly true that you can’t really ...

But on May 22, 1969, the day after he died, Apollo 10 astronauts prepared to take the lunar module to within 50,000 feet of the moon’s surface, preparation for the actual moon landing scheduled ...

Astronauts on the Apollo 10 mission in 1969 heard mysterious, “outer space-type” music when passing around the far side of the moon. Worden believes the matter remains a mystery.

The Apollo 10 astronauts – Tom Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan – can be heard on recordings from the flight talking about the strange sound, and whether to tell NASA about it.

Apollo 10 was the first and last time NASA would send three men to the moon with the express intention of getting them as close as possible to the lunar surface without actually touching it.