Apollo 10’s job was to iron out as many kinks as possible before Apollo 11 attempted an actual landing. This included detailed scouting of Apollo 11’s landing site; testing Snoopy’s descent ...

The Apollo 10 mission in May 1969 set the stage for Apollo 11’s historic mission two months later. Stafford and Gene Cernan took the lunar lander nicknamed Snoopy within 9 miles (14 kilometers) ...

Audio clip: Charlie Brown was selected by the astronauts as the codename for the Apollo 10 command module and his friend Snoopy was the call sign for the lunar module. Mosher: NASA launched 10 of ...