With all the fuss about Apollo 11, this visually astonishing precursor mission that launched to the Moon OTD 50 years ago is often overlooked. Tom Stafford & Gene Cernan saved the day in the malfunctioning Lunar Module and John Young became the first human ever to orbit another world alone. The Apollo 10 Lunar Module "Snoopy" is still floating around the Solar System somewhere!
Scientific Reference:
Simultaneous HARPS and HARPS-N Observations of the Earth Transit of 2014 as Seen from Jupiter: Detection of an Inverse Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect
Molaro, P.; Monaco, L.; Barbieri, M.; Zaggia, S.; Lovis, C.
The Messenger, vol. 161, p. 20-23 , September 2015 https://www.eso.org/sci/publications/messenger/archive/no.161-sep15/messenger-no161-20-23.pdf
With all the fuss about Apollo 11, this visually astonishing precursor mission that launched to the Moon OTD 50 years ago is often overlooked. Tom Stafford & Gene Cernan saved the day in the malfunctioning Lunar Module and John Young became the first human ever to orbit another world alone. The Apollo 10 Lunar Module "Snoopy" is still floating around the Solar System somewhere!
NASA Public Domain Video Source:
https://archive.org/details/Apollo-10_Onboard-Film-Mags_KDCALIVY.mxf
https://archive.org/details/Apollo-10_Onboard-Film-Mags_AABJFGHW.mxf
Music:
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-in-Space/dp/B00M2H27VY
Composite of SDO footage of Venus and Mercury solar transits as approximate stand-ins for Earth and Moon
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3941
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4461
Sound of the Sun:
http://quake.stanford.edu/~sasha/SOUNDS/sounds.html
Music:
Max Richter: Lost in Space
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-in-Space/dp/B00M2H27VY
Scientific Reference:
Simultaneous HARPS and HARPS-N Observations of the Earth Transit of 2014 as Seen from Jupiter: Detection of an Inverse Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect
Molaro, P.; Monaco, L.; Barbieri, M.; Zaggia, S.; Lovis, C.
The Messenger, vol. 161, p. 20-23 , September 2015
https://www.eso.org/sci/publications/messenger/archive/no.161-sep15/messenger-no161-20-23.pdf