On Apollo 10, what was Stafford's role?
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Stafford was the commander of Apollo 10, the second manned mission to the moon. The mission was a dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 mission, which would land astronauts on the moon. Stafford and his crewmates, Eugene Cernan and John Young, performed a number of tests in lunar orbit, including a simulated landing on the moon.
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