Manned Space Flight, USA, Apollo 10 The Apollo 10 Saturn V rocket, 1969

Manned Space Flight, USA, Apollo 10 The Apollo 10 Saturn V rocket, 1969. The rocket is undergoing final pre-launch checks at Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Centre, Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was launched on 18th May 1969 and carried Apollo 10 astronauts, Thomas Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan, on a lunar orbital mission, the dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 landing mission, which took place two months later. The massive Saturn V rocket, over 100 metres tall, was the largest rocket ever built and was used on all the Apollo missions to the Moon. ©SSPL/NASA