As you may know, Apollo 10 was the dress rehearsal mission for Apollo 11. Astronauts Stafford and Cernan departed the command module and flew the LM with strictest orders to not land on the moon.
Since this was the only moon mission with a lunar module that didn't land, it was left orbiting the moon, although some believed it headed out to orbit the sun.
Anyway, it appears they may have finally spotted this little guy, that as us old timers know, was nicknamed "Snoopy" in the same way Apollo 11's was called The Eagle.
Houston, we have long-lost problem probe Apollo 10
The last that the crew of the Apollo 10 saw of their lunar lander was the flash of an explosive charge sending it off into orbit.
Then the astronaut Tom Stafford radioed back to Houston from his own orbit around the Moon that they had lost sight of it. “We don’t have any idea where he went. He just went boom and disappeared right into the Sun,” he said.
Fifty years later a team of amateur British astronomers, along with former Apollo flight controllers, believe that the lander, one of the greatest surviving relics of the Apollo Moon landings, has been found. It is a tiny needle in the cosmic haystack that has been loyally waiting
Houston, we have long-lost problem probe Apollo 10
Since this was the only moon mission with a lunar module that didn't land, it was left orbiting the moon, although some believed it headed out to orbit the sun.
Anyway, it appears they may have finally spotted this little guy, that as us old timers know, was nicknamed "Snoopy" in the same way Apollo 11's was called The Eagle.
Houston, we have long-lost problem probe Apollo 10
The last that the crew of the Apollo 10 saw of their lunar lander was the flash of an explosive charge sending it off into orbit.
Then the astronaut Tom Stafford radioed back to Houston from his own orbit around the Moon that they had lost sight of it. “We don’t have any idea where he went. He just went boom and disappeared right into the Sun,” he said.
Fifty years later a team of amateur British astronomers, along with former Apollo flight controllers, believe that the lander, one of the greatest surviving relics of the Apollo Moon landings, has been found. It is a tiny needle in the cosmic haystack that has been loyally waiting
Houston, we have long-lost problem probe Apollo 10
. I could almost stick my head through those gaps in the metal......oh.....but it successfully plowed through temperatures of almost 10,000 degrees on reentry.
