Retro Space Images: The Ascent of Apollo 10

The ascent stage of the Apollo 10 Lunar Module rises up from the Moon. Photo Credit:  John Young / NASA
AS10-34-5115 The ascent stage of the Apollo 10 Lunar Module rises up from the Moon. Photo Credit: John Young / NASA

Remembering Apollo 10 —  The Lunar Module “Snoopy” is shown in this rendezvous image taken by astronaut John Young aboard the Command  Module “Charlie Brown.” Astronauts Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan had just completed checking out the LM systems a final time, thus paving the way for a lunar landing by Apollo 11 two months later.

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