177K views · 3K reactions | On May 18, 1969, the Apollo 10 mission lifted off from Kennedy Space Center. In many ways a dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 mission, astronauts Thomas Stafford, John Young and Gene Cernan did just about everything the later Apollo 11 astronauts would do except for actually landing on the moon. During the mission, this film of Earth seeming to rise over the lunar surface was taken. Video Credit: NASA/Johnson Space Center | The Museum of Flight | Facebook

163K views · 1.1K shares | “You can tell the world that we have arrived!” ‍ Fifty years ago, Apollo 10 launched to rehearse all the steps and reproduce all the events of the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission, with the exception of the lunar touchdown, stay and liftoff. Blast back to the past: | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook