Human Spaceflight
APOLLO 10 LM APS
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The S-IVB was the third stage on the Saturn V and second stage on the Saturn IB launch vehicles. Built by the Douglas Aircraft Company, it had one J-2 rocket engine. For lunar missions it was fired twice: first for Earth orbit insertion after second stage cutoff, and then for translunar injection (TLI).
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 18, 1969 at 04:49 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Saturn V →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Apollo 10
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Heliocentric
- Reference body
- Heliocentric
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 3,752 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-043D
- NORAD catalog №
- 3949
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- active