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Former NASA astronaut Thomas Stafford, a three-star Air Force ... key capabilities to future Apollo flights to the Moon. But Stafford's commander on Gemini 3, Alan Shepard, was grounded for ...
If there was a common theme to the four missions Stafford flew, it was 'meetings in space.' Former NASA astronaut Thomas Stafford, who flew to the moon before leading the first international space ...
Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who commanded the Apollo 10 dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday. He was 93. Stafford, a retired Air ...
Thomas P. Stafford, an astronaut who commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died March 18 at a hospital in Satellite Beach ...
Gen. Thomas P. Stafford, an astronaut who commanded the Apollo 10 mission to the moon, has died at the age of 93.The Stafford Air & Space Museum in Oklahoma announced that he died Monday morning ...
Apollo 10 "dress rehearsal" mission launched into orbit, to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later.
STAFFORD WAS BORN IN WEATHERFORD IN 1930, AND IN MAY 1969 COMMANDED THE 1969 APOLLO TEN MISSION TO THE MOON, BECOMING THE FIRST MAN TO PILOT A LUNAR Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford, an astronaut who ...