69K views · 1.3K reactions | On May 18, 1969, the Apollo 10 mission lifted off from Kennedy Space Center. In many ways a dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 mission, astronauts Thomas Stafford, John Young and Gene Cernan did just about everything the later Apollo 11 astronauts would do except for actually landing on the moon. During the mission, this film of Earth seeming to rise over the lunar surface was taken. Video Credit: NASA/Johnson Space Center | The Museum of Flight | Facebook

120K views · 6.6K reactions | Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Apollo 10 mission with Snoopy! Now streaming for free on Apple TV: apple.co/Peanuts_In_Space Imagine Entertainment and Television | Snoopy | Facebook

May 21, 1969: Apollo 10 (May 18–26, 1969) was a human spaceflight, the fourth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, and the second (after Apollo 8) to orbit the Moon. It was the F mission: a “dress rehearsal” for the first Moon landing, testing all the components and procedures just short of actually landing. While astronaut John Young remained in the Command Module orbiting the Moon, astronauts Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan flew the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) “Snoopy” to a descent