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Why was Apollo 10 renamed Apollo 11?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

It wasn't. Apollo 10 was a real Apollo mission, they were the "dress rehearsal" for the Apollo 11 flight that took place 2 months later.

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