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Eugene Cernan or Thomas Stafford

Close-ups of the CM Charlie Brown, first spacecraft photographed over another world

Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, orbit 12

Two unreleased photographs, vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based Kodak paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in) and with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso (NASA / North American Rockwell) [NASA AS10-27-3874 and AS10-27-3878]

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John Young

Snoopy, first LM in lunar orbit, seen against the dark void of space

Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, orbit 12

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso (NASA / North American Rockwell) [NASA AS10-34-5092]
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Mason, p. 164.

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The Command Module, about 12 feet in diameter and weighing 12,500 pounds had about “as much habitable volume as a walk-in closet” (Light, caption 106).

Below the spacecraft (orbiting 69 miles above the lunar surface) is Smyth’s Sea, which is located on the lunar equator just beyond the eastern limb of the Moon as viewed from Earth. Parts of the LM window are visible in the right foreground.

098:20:11 Cernan (Snoopy): John, you’re the first vehicle photographed by another around the Moon. How does that grab you?
098:20:16 Young (Charlie Brown): That grabs me good.
098:20:49 Stafford (Snoopy): Can you come in a little ways here just slowly.
098:20:52 Young (Charlie Brown): Yes. I’m coming in.

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The purpose of the fourth manned Apollo mission was to be a dress rehearsal for Apollo 11, testing all of the procedures and components of a Moon landing without actually landing on the Moon itself. Here the LM “hovers near the CSM before its dress rehearsal of a lunar descent. At 65,000 feet the LM’s radar sensed the lunar surface and began gathering data on altitude and descent rate” (Mason, p. 164).