Astronaut Thomas Stafford, commander of Apollo 10 Moon mission, dies at 93

Thomas Stafford logged 507 hours in space across four groundbreaking missions

Thomas P Stafford in 1965 near the NASA Motor Vessel Retriever in the Gulf of Mexico during training He took part in four space missions. Before Apollo 10, he flew on two Gemini flights – including the first rendezvous of two US capsules in orbit, a key milestone in the effort to get to the Moon.

Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, left, and Gen Stafford, participants of the Apollo-Soyuz space flight, the first international space mission, speak to the media in Moscow, Russia, in 2010 “It helped prove to the rest of the world that two completely opposite political systems could work together,” Gen Stafford recalled at a 30th anniversary gathering in 2005.

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