Thomas Stafford was an American NASA astronaut and United States Air Force general who flew on Gemini 6A, commanded Gemini 9A, and served as commander of Apollo 10 in 1969, a full dress rehearsal for the Moon landing that brought its lunar module to within about nine miles of the lunar surface without landing. Stafford later commanded the American side of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first joint spaceflight between the United States and the Soviet Union, docking his Apollo capsule with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft.
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Thomas Stafford was a NASA astronaut who flew Gemini 6A, Gemini 9A, Apollo 10 and commanded the American crew of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
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Thomas Patten Stafford (September 17, 1930, March 18, 2024) was an American Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and one of 24 Apollo astronauts who flew to the Moon.
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He was selected to become an astronaut in 1962, and flew aboard Gemini 6A in 1965 and Gemini 9A in 1966.
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Thomas Patten Stafford (September 17, 1930, March 18, 2024) was an American Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and one of 24 Apollo astronauts who flew to the Moon.
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Thomas Patten Stafford (September 17, 1930, March 18, 2024) was an American Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and one of 24 Apollo astronauts who flew to the Moon.
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After the spacecraft reached lunar orbit, astronaut John Young remained in the Command and Service Module (CSM) while astronauts Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan flew the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) to within 14.4 kilometers (7.8 nautical miles; 9 miles) of the lunar surface, the point at which powered descent for landing would begin on a landing mission.
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