Apollo 10
Apollo 10
The mission's call signs were the names of the Peanuts characters Charlie Brown for the CSM and Snoopy for the LM, who became Apollo 10's semi-official mascots. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz also drew mission-related artwork for NASA.
Background
By 1967, NASA had devised a list of mission types, designated by letters, that needed to be flown before a landing attempt, which would be the "G" mission. The early uncrewed flights were considered "A" or "B" missions, while Apollo 7, the crewed-flight test of the Command and Service Module (CSM), was the "C" mission. The first crewed orbital test of the Lunar Module (LM) was accomplished on Apollo 9, the "D" mission. Apollo 8, flown to the Moon's orbit without an LM, was considered a "C-prime" mission, but its success gave NASA the confidence to skip the "E" mission, which would have tested the full Apollo spacecraft in medium or high Earth orbit. Apollo 10, the dress rehearsal for the lunar landing, was to be the "F" mission.
Crew and key Mission Control personnel
<table><thead><tr><th>Position</th><th>Astronaut</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Commander (CDR)</td><td>Thomas P. Stafford Third spaceflight</td></tr><tr><td>Command Module Pilot (CMP)</td><td>John Young Third spaceflight</td></tr><tr><td>Lunar Module Pilot (LMP)</td><td>Gene Cernan Second spaceflight</td></tr></tbody></table>
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