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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1969
Page
2
Eugene Cernan and crewmates perform playful antics aboard Apollo 10 while Barbara Young and Barbara Cernan watch on big screens. Wives manage home life with the squawk box radios, adjusting to life without their husbands as John Young and Thomas Stafford entertain the world.
NASA chief Thomas Paine denounces Senator Kennedy for a dispirited space vision at Worcester Goddard Library dedication. Kennedy urged orderly, programmed exploration over a race to Venus and Mars, prompting Paine to warn against yielding technological supremacy to the Soviets. Paine says Apollo era demands continued bold progress.
Astronauts Thomas Stafford Eugene Cernan and John Young will fly close range lunar scouting on Apollo 10 to image the Sea of Tranquility descent path. The mission tests a near surface profile ahead of the first manned lunar landing planned for July.
The Apollo 10 mission uses a lightweight sequential color television camera designed by Westinghouse with a prism lens and single pick-up tube. It records full color at 60 frames per second with minimal power drain, weighing 14 pounds and enabling handheld use. Astronauts Aldrin and Stafford prepare for historic lunar steps on July 20.
Apollo 11 and the lunar lander move to launch pad 39A atop a Saturn V, aiming to start a historic voyage to the moon in about two months. The rollout begins around 8 am EDT, with astronauts Neil Armstrong Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin slated for a July 16 liftoff from Florida's Cape Kennedy complex.
Apollo 10 astronauts report trouble separating hydrogen from water using a hand held centrifuge. Thomas Stafford asks if ground tests were done while John Young describes starting with a bag of water and ending with large bubbles, noting the difficulty of separating bubbles. Bruce McCandless jokes about trying the opposite spin.
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