Astronaut Thomas Stafford, commander of Apollo 10, has died at age 93

  • March 18, 2024
Astronaut Thomas Stafford, commander of Apollo 10, has died at age 93

In this March 22, 2016, file photo, retired NASA astronaut Tom Stafford, a native of Weatherford, Okla.,, who flew the first lunar module to the moon in 1969, stands in front of a portrait made in his honor in the Oklahoma House of Representatives lounge in Oklahoma City.

WASHINGTON — Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday. He was 93.

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