Apollo 10’s Practice Run Paved Way For Lunar Landing

Credit: NASA/John Young
Fifty years ago, the idea of landing astronauts on the Moon after just three crewed Apollo Saturn V development flights seemed an ambitious, if not preposterous, prospect. But the December 1968 Apollo 8 lunar flyby had gone well, and so did the shakedown flight of the Lunar Module (LM) in low Earth...

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