National Aeronautics and Space Administr

Apollo 10 Mission Report National Aeronautics and Space Administr

"Eight days and three minutes after leaving launch pad B at Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center, Apollo 10 splashed down 3 miles from the Pacific aiming point. Spacecraft Commander Thomas P. Stafford, Lunar Module pilot Eugene Cernan and Command Module Pilot John W. Young, flying the Command Module (CM), code-named Charlie Brown, thus rang down the curtain on the dress rehearsal mission for the lunar landing which, if all goes well, will be made in July. There were a few chilling moments..."