NASA Saturn V Apollo 10
Saturn V
Status
Success
Date
18 MAY 1969
16:49
Launch Provider
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Launch Pad
Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission Overview
Apollo 10 was Command by Thomas P. Stafford, Command Module Pilot John W. Young, and Lunar Module Pilot Eugene A. Cernan. This mission was a F Mission which means a dress rehearsal for the upcoming Apollo 11 Mission that would be the first crewed mission to land on the moon.
Rocket
Saturn V
Mission Type
Human Exploration
Orbit
Lunar Orbit
Stages
3
Livestream
Rocket Details
The Saturn V was a human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973. Most notably, the Saturn V took the Apollo program to the Moon. It still remains the world's tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and is the only launch vehicle to take humans beyond LEO.
Height
110.6 m
Diameter
10.1 m
Launch Mass
2,970 T
Thrust
35,100 kN