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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 14:57:44 UTC Robert McNees

   Apollo 10 launched #OTD in 1969 from Launch Complex 39-B at Kennedy Space Center.

   The Lunar Module approached within 16 km of the surface before the crew returned to Earth. The next mission would deliver astronauts to the surface.

   Images: NASA

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 15:10:40 UTC Robert McNees

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     • Paul Sutton

     @zleap This might be a bit of a reach!

   • Paul Sutton (zleap@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 15:10:45 UTC Paul Sutton

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     @mcnees

     So apollo 10 did a moon orbit, 10 in Binary is 2, so Artemis is going to do the same as Apollo 10.

     Artemis 3, binary 11 is going to do the same as Apollo 11

     or is that far too a geeky observation?

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 15:16:11 UTC Robert McNees

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     If you aren't too busy, take a minute to look through NASA's Project Apollo archive on Flickr.

     https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums

     This is a totally safe use of your time, you definitely won't look up two hours from now and ask where your morning went.

     Images: NASA

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 15:22:03 UTC Robert McNees

     • Molly Cantrell-Kraig

     @mckra1g Canonically Gandalf, as far as I am concerned.

   • JimTheWhyGuy (jimthewhyguy@techfieldday.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 16:39:04 UTC JimTheWhyGuy

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     @mcnees Read up on this last nite. As I kid, I remember thinking, "What's stopping them from just making the landing???" and then I read that NASA had deliberately under-fueled the LM ascent stage to prevent any astro-shenanigans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10