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Apollo X - Crew Training

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Image Credit: NASA/JSC
Published: June 27, 2018
Historical Date: June 3, 1969

Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan (left), lunar module pilot of the Apollo 10 lunar orbit mission, confers with astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. during an Apollo 10 postflight de-briefing session. Aldrin is the lunar module pilot of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.

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