Thomas P. Stafford, a career astronaut, commander of the Apollo 10 spaceflight, and key figure in the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday. He was 93. Stafford also commanded a "dress rehearsal ...

The commander of 1969’s Apollo 10 died on Monday in Florida at the age of 93 Bettmann Archive/Getty NASA astronaut Thomas Stafford has died at the age of 93. The commander of 1969’s Apollo 10 died on ...

The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth, and the only flown-to-the-moon Apollo command module to be on ...

ALSO, JUST INTO THE NEWSROOM HERE AT NINE, GENERAL THOMAS STAFFORD, THE NAMESAKE OF THE STAFFORD AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM IN WEATHERFORD, HAS REPORTEDLY PASSED AWAY AND THE MUSEUM HERE ANNOUNCING THAT HE ...

This Smithsonian Snapshot marks the May 18, 1969, launch of the Apollo 10 mission. The Apollo 10 spacecraft launched from Cape Kennedy at 12:49 p.m. EST with commander Thomas Stafford, command module ...

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