"Dress rehearsal" for the moon landing: Apollo 10 on launch pad, Cape Kennedy, Florida; view of the Earth from Apollo 10 spacecraft, May 4-26, 1969
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"Dress rehearsal" for the moon landing: Apollo 10 on launch pad, Cape Kennedy, Florida; view of the Earth from Apollo 10 spacecraft, May 4-26, 1969

NASA [Apollo 10]

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"Dress rehearsal" for the moon landing: Apollo 10 on launch pad, Cape Kennedy, Florida; view of the Earth from Apollo 10 spacecraft, May 4-26, 1969
NASA [Apollo 10]
i. Apollo 10 on launch complex 30, pad B, during pull back of the mobile service structure, Cape Kennedy, Florida, May 4, 1969
Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered 'S-69-33855' in red on right margin on recto, with NASA Texas caption and 'A Kodak Paper' watermarks on verso

ii. View of the west coast of North America, from the Apollo 10 spacecraft, May 18-26, 1969
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA caption on verso

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During the Apollo 10 crewed mission (ii), astronauts Thomas Stafford, Gene Cernan, and John Young view the Earth from 250,000 miles away. The west coast of North America is clearly visible, with the remaining land mass obscured by dynamic, swirling cloud cover.