Apollo 10 - May 18, 1969 Apollo 10 served as a dress rehearsal for the actual moon landing. Its mission
was to simulate all aspects of the Apollo 11 mission. This included descending
in the Lunar Module down to within fourteen kilometers of the moon's surface
without actually landing. The Lunar Module was named Snoopy after the
famous character from the Peanuts comic strip. Its job was to "snoop" around
the lunar surface gathering data about the Apollo 11 landing site. The Lunar
Module would deploy from the Command Module named Charlie Brown, named
after Snoopy's faithful companion in the comics. Additionally, Apollo 10 was the
second spacecraft to orbit the moon and the first to film their travels in color,
which were then televised back on Earth.