1969 May 19 Kingsport TN Times Newspaper Apollo 10 Moon Astronauts Rehearsal for Sale

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1969 May 19 Kingsport TN Times Newspaper Apollo 10 Moon Astronauts Rehearsal
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SPACE CENTER. Houston(UPI) - Apollo 10sastronauts, trailblazers forAmerica’s first lunar landingteam, sped today towardman\'s second rendesvous withthe moon and his closest lookyet at its forofferding surface.Spacemen Thomas P .Stafford, John W. Young andEugene A. Cornan, all veteranastronauts, blasted away fromCape Kennedy Sunday on acourse so precise groundofficials cancelled amidcourse correctionscheduled for early today.Relaxing and enjoying theirreturn to space during thethree-day, 237,000-mile coasttoward moon orbit, theypromised a second day ofcolor television from spaceand planned to take advantageof a second course correctionopportunity at 3:22 p.m. EDT.The three astronauts lacedtwo and a half hectic dayscircling the moon. Their jobwas to fly every part of thelanding mission except thetouchdown, testing t h etechniques Apollo 11 will usefor a July lunar touchdown.Stafford, who “pushed anddid a little kicking” to geta color TV camera aboardhis craft, presented 72minutes of the first live colortelecasts ever sent back fromspace Sunday afternoon.It was more than four limesthe amount of televisionofficially scheduled — a singleshow lasting 15 minutes.Again today only one showwas officially scheduled, at4:04 p.m. for 15 minutes, butStafford said he would leavethe camera on as much aspossible.The three TV shows Sundayconcentrated mainly on theplanet Apollo 10 had leftbehind — a bright blue earthmarbled by white clouds andyellow-brown or orangecontinents, sharply etechedagainst, the ink blackness ofspace.The astronauts blastedaway from Cape Kennedy at12:49 p.m. Sunday, right ontime, setting a record forStafford. A veteran of twoGemini flights, he had neverlaunched in space on schedulebefore.“I can tell you. babe, thatone is a real ride,” Cernanradioed the ground. He said itwas “smooth as silk” untiltime for the Saturn first stageto drop away, and that then“all hell breaks loose.”...e52