Lunar landing rehearsal

Abstract

TWENTY‐FIVE seconds late! Apollo 10 splashed down in the Pacific just three miles from the recovery carrier Princeton 25 seconds late after eight days of space travel and a journey of about half a million miles. Such was the almost unbelievable precision of the dress rehearsal of the planned lunar landing scheduled for July. The Apollo 10 flight was a duplicate of the landing mission except for the actual touchdown, and the crew of the lunar module approached to within 50,000 feet of the moon's surface to make a reconnaissance of the landing area.

Citation

(1969), "Lunar landing rehearsal", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 41 No. 6, pp. 5-5. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb034513