On 26 May 1969, the command module of Apollo 10 hit Earth’s atmosphere travelling at 36,397 feet per second, or 39,937.7 kilometres per hour. Guinness World Records lists that moment as the fastest ...

Nearly six decades after three NASA astronauts raced home from the Moon at almost 40,000 km/h, no human space mission has surpassed their speed. The crew of Apollo 10—Thomas Stafford, John Young, and ...

HOUSTON—U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. (ret.) Thomas Stafford, who commanded NASA’s May 1969 Apollo 10 mission to the Moon and led the Apollo crew that participated in a historic linkup with Soviet ...

WASHINGTON — Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first US.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday. He was 93. Mr. Stafford, a retired Air ...

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (WHNT) — 56 years ago today, the Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into space to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later. Apollo 10 launched from Cape ...

PACIFIC OCEAN (WCSC) — The Apollo 10 lunar module returned to earth on May 26, 1969. The module re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, returning Mission Commander Thomas ...

Recently discovered recordings of the Apollo 10 mission reveal the astronauts in 1969 were hearing mysterious music, declassified transcripts reveal. When the spacecraft was around the dark side of ...

Apollo 10 astronauts heard what they described as "outer space type music" during their historic mission around the dark side of the moon in 1969, according to a NASA audio tape. Crew members Eugene ...

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service ...