{"id":299,"date":"2009-05-18T09:51:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T09:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=299"},"modified":"2013-02-06T15:25:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T20:25:36","slug":"day-space-history-apollo-x-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/day-space-history-apollo-x-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in Space History: Apollo-X Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago today &#8212; May 18, 1969 &#8212; astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young, Jr., and Eugene A. Cernan lifted off on the <a href=\"http:\/\/nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/nmc\/masterCatalog.do?sc=1969-043A\">Apollo 10 mission<\/a>. Their Saturn V launch vehicle (number SA-505) launched at 12:49 a.m. EDT from the Kennedy Space Center, on &#8220;the mission before THE mission.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/convert_files\/294=26-S69-34144.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(Apollo-X launch. Click to enlarge.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Travelling in Command Module &#8220;Charlie Brown&#8221; and Lunar Module &#8220;Snoopy,&#8221; the astronauts tested all aspects of the lunar mission except the actual lunar landing, and accomplished several &#8220;firsts&#8221; including: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First transmitted color photographs of the full Earth from a crew in space<\/li>\n<li>First demonstration rendezvous in lunar orbit<\/li>\n<li>First burning of LM descent stage engine in lunar landing configuration<\/li>\n<li>First LM steerable antenna at lunar distances<\/li>\n<li>First LM within 15,240 meters [8 nautical miles] of the lunar surface<\/li>\n<li>First crew-assisted navigational, visual, and photographic evaluations of the moon<\/li>\n<li>First and only Apollo launch from Launch Complex 39B<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/convert_files\/308=30-corolla sunrise - jvader33.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/convert_files\/308=30-corolla sunrise - jvader33.jpg\" class=\"gc-images\" title=\"corolla sunrise - jvader33.jpg\" style=\"max-width:400px\" \/><\/a>   <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/convert_files\/307=29-365433-LRO-NASA.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/convert_files\/307=29-365433-LRO-NASA.jpg\" class=\"gc-images\" title=\"365433-LRO-NASA.jpg\" style=\"max-width:400px\" \/><\/a> <br \/>\n<em>(Views of Earth from Apollo-X. 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