Thomas Stafford, astronaut whose handshake helped melt Soviet Cold War – memoir
by Thomas Stafford, right, shaking hands with Alexei Leonov in the Apollo-Soyuz docking tunnel on 17 July 1975 – AFP General Thomas Stafford, who has died …
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Astronaut Thomas Stafford, Apollo 10 commander, has died aged 93
WASHINGTON (AP) – Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who led a dress practice flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first US-Soviet space link, died …