Apollo 10 Mission "Green Light to Lunar Landing" (1969)

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Made in 1969 by NASA, narrated by John Flynn and directed by Charles Gallagher, APOLLO 10: GREEN LIGHT FOR A LUNAR LANDING presents highlights of the lunar orbital mission, including the unlocking and descent of the lunar module to within ten miles of the moon's surface. This was second lunar orbital mission and the last before the Apollo 11 landing, and was made by astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan. Mission goals included undocking and descent of the lunar module within ten miles of the lunar surface. The film ends with shots of Apollo 11's Saturn V sitting on the launch pad. The film features a soundtrack by Walter (aka Wendy) Carlos and the Cleveland Orchestra. Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, and the second (after Apollo 8) to orbit the Moon. Launched on May 18, 1969, it was the F mission: a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing, testing all of the components and procedures, just short of actually landing. The Lunar Module (LM) came to within 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) of the lunar surface, the point where the powered descent to the lunar surface would begin. Its success enabled the first landing to be attempted on Apollo 11 in July, 1969. According to the 2002 Guinness World Records, Apollo 10 set the record for the highest speed attained by a manned vehicle at 39,897 km/h (11.08 km/s or 24,791 mph) during the return from the Moon on May 26, 1969. Due to the use of their names as…

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28 minutes

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Ephemeral Films

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