Mission

On May 18, 1969 Apollo 10 was launched. Its sole purpose was to do a "dress rehearsal" of the later Apollo 11 flight without landing on the moon. Its astronauts were Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan. It spent eight days in space making thirty-one orbits around the moon.

Mr. Gene Cernan

Born March 14, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois.
Bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Purdue University; master of science in aeronautical engineering from U.S. Navy Postgraduate School. Flew on Gemini IX, Apollo 10, and Apollo 17. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are more than 566.
Cumulative EVA time is more than 73 hours.

Mr. Tom Stafford

Born September 17, 1930, in Weatherford, Oklahoma.
Bachelor of science from U.S. Naval Academy.
Flew on Gemini VI, Gemini IX, Apollo 10, and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are more than 507.

Mr. John Young

Born September 24, 1930, in San Francisco, California. Bachelor of science in aeronautical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Flew on Gemini 3, Gemini X, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, and STS-9. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are more than 835. Cumulative EVA time is more than 20 hours (on the Moon).