Apollo 10 completed a flight of 192 hours, three minutes, 23 seconds – one minute, 24 seconds longer than planned. The astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean around 12:52 p.m. Eastern and ...

CAPE KENNEDY -- Apollo 10 hurtled away yesterday on its lonely mission to skim over the craters of the moon, the last daring test for a lunar landing this summer.

Thomas P. Stafford, a career astronaut, commander of the Apollo 10 spaceflight, and key figure in the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday. He was 93. Stafford also commanded a "dress ...

Apollo 10’s return to Earth set the world’s record for fastest speed by a crewed vehicle at 24,791 mph (39,897 kph). After the moon landings ended, ...

During Apollo 10, Stafford and his crew of Cernan and John Young set the all-time human speed record of 24,791 mph, or nearly seven miles per second as they returned home, ...

But “Apollo 10 ½” made it into the race as what Linklater called “a late entry” even though it had premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2022.

Richard Linklater’s “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood” revisits the 1969 moon landing through the memories of a boy who imagines traveling there himself.It premiered at the SXSW Film ...

Stafford, a retired Air Force three-star general, took part in four space missions. Before Apollo 10, he flew on two Gemini flights, including the first rendezvous of two U.S. capsules in orbit.