The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old ... and it was launched into orbit after the final Apollo lunar landing in 1972. From May 1973 to February 1974, three different ...

one almost forgets Apollo 10 --- the mission that did everything short of actually landing on the lunar surface. To those of us watching it live here on Earth, it was one of the most exhilarating ...

They also got closer to the lunar surface than any Apollo astronaut before them: The Apollo 10 mission included a version of the lunar lander that Apollo 11 eventually rode down to the lunar surface.

his role as commander of Apollo 10 paved the way for the next team of astronauts to land on the moon with Apollo 11. His final space mission was in 1975 on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project ...