Inflight - Apollo 10, NASA Apollo program
Summary
S69-34075 (19 May 1969) --- Astronaut John W. Young, Apollo 10 command module pilot, displays a drawing of Charlie Brown in this color reproduction taken from the fourth telecast made by the color television camera aboard the Apollo 10 spacecraft. When this picture was made the Apollo 10 spacecraft was about halfway to the moon, or approximately 112,000 nautical miles from Earth. ?Charlie Brown? will be the code name of the Command Module (CM) during Apollo 10 operations when the Lunar Module (LM) and CM are separated. The LM's code name will be ?Snoopy?. Also, aboard Apollo 10 were astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, commander; and Eugene A. Cernan, lunar module pilot.
Tags
Date
19/05/1969
Source
NASA
Copyright info
Public Domain Dedication (CC0)