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Saturn V | Apollo 10

Saturn V | Apollo 10

Status: Success  |  Launched: May 18, 1969 16:49 UTC

Launch Provider & Rocket

Mission

Apollo 10 was Command by Thomas P. Stafford, Command Module Pilot John W. Young, and Lunar Module Pilot Eugene A. Cernan. This mission was a F Mission which means a dress rehearsal for the upcoming Apollo 11 Mission that would be the first crewed mission to land on the moon.

  • Type: Human Exploration
  • Orbit: Lunar Orbit (LO)

Launch Site

  • Pad: Launch Complex 39B
  • Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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Program

  • Apollo — The Apollo program was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. (Wikipedia)

Launch data sourced automatically from the Launch Library 2 API. Last refreshed: 2026-10-08T01:01:54.797344+00:00.