Astronaut Tom Stafford (foreground) sits with Wally Schirra in the Gemini 6 spacecraft prior to launch. NASA Sixty years ago, a fleet of sleek little spaceships paved the way for America to land a ...

It had been the idea of Stafford, says space collector Larry McGlynn, who now owns the Charlie Brown painting. “Tom was driving to get color TV aboard Apollo 10,” says McGlynn.

Thomas Stafford dies at 93; astronaut was Apollo 10 commander and part of first US-Soviet space linkup He was one of 24 NASA astronauts who flew to the moon, but he did not land on it ...

Tom Stafford, who died at 93 on ... “I would be out front painting the fence, like Tom Sawyer. ... NASA chose him as an astronaut. The 6-foot-tall Stafford credited NASA’s decision to relax ...

NASA Astronaut Thomas Stafford, the Commander of Apollo 10, Dead at 93. The commander of 1969’s Apollo 10 died on Monday in Florida at the age of 93. By. Gabrielle Rockson.

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. Retired NASA astronaut Tom Stafford ...

Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford is seen near the NASA Motor Vessel Retriever in the Gulf of Mexico during training Aug. 23, 1965. | NASA via AP By Associated Press 03/18/2024 06:10 PM EDT ...

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.

March 18 (UPI) --Former Gemini and Apollo 10 astronaut Thomas Stafford died at his home in Indian Harbor, Fla., on Monday, NASA said.He was 93. Stafford, a retired Air Force lieutenant general ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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. Stafford, a ...

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, March 18, 2024. He was 93. (AP Photo/Pool, file) ...