Search results
Thomas P. Stafford. Thomas Patten Stafford (September 17, 1930 – March 18, 2024) was an American Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and one of 24 astronauts who flew to the Moon. He also served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1969 to 1971.
Sep 13, 2024 · Thomas Stafford was an American astronaut who flew two Gemini rendezvous missions (1965–66) and commanded the Apollo 10 mission (1969), the final test of Apollo systems before the first crewed landing on the Moon.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 19, 2024 · Former NASA astronaut Thomas Stafford, a three-star Air Force general known for a historic handshake in space with a Soviet cosmonaut nearly 50 years ago, died Monday in Florida. He was 93....
Mar 18, 2024 · Thomas P. Stafford, an astronaut who pioneered cooperation in space when he commanded the American capsule that linked up with a Soviet spaceship in July 1975, died on Monday in Satellite Beach,...
Mar 18, 2024 · Former NASA astronaut Thomas Stafford, who flew to the moon before leading the first international space mission carried out by the United States and Russia, has died at the age of 93.
Nov 28, 2023 · He was the Apollo commander of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission in 1975, a joint space flight culminating in the first meeting in space between American Astronauts and Soviet Cosmonauts, which ended the International space race.
Apr 4, 2024 · Lt. Gen. Thomas Stafford (USAF) died at the age of 93 on March 18, 2024. Born in Weatherford, Oklahoma, to a dentist and a former schoolteacher on September 17, 1930, Stafford grew up under the first transcontinental airline route.
