Thomas Patten Stafford (September 17, 1930 – March 18, 2024) was an American Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and one of 24 astronauts...
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Thomas or Tom Stafford may refer to: Thomas P. Stafford (1930–2024), American astronaut and Air Force general, orbited Moon on Apollo 10 Thomas Stafford...
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Thomas P. Stafford Airport (ICAO: KOJA, FAA LID: OJA, formerly F91) is a city-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of...
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and Spirit of St. Louis. Weatherford is the hometown of astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, veteran of four space flights and commander of the Gemini 9, Apollo...
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Jingle Bells (category Thomas P. Stafford)
broadcast from space, in a Christmas-themed prank by Gemini 6 astronauts Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra. While in space on December 16, 1965, they sent this...
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friends with the US commander Thomas P. Stafford, with Leonov being the godfather of Stafford's younger children. Stafford gave a eulogy in Russian at Leonov's...
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Gemini 6A (category Thomas P. Stafford)
in NASA's Gemini program. The mission, flown by Wally Schirra and Thomas P. Stafford, achieved the first crewed rendezvous with another spacecraft, its...
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Gemini 9A (category Thomas P. Stafford)
inspect their spacecraft. Their deaths promoted the backup crew, Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene Cernan, to the prime crew. The mission was renamed Gemini...
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Apollo 10 (category Thomas P. Stafford)
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...
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Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham KG (3 February 1478 – 17 May 1521) was an English nobleman. He was the son of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham...
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Chief of the Astronaut Office (category Thomas P. Stafford)
Chief of the Astronaut Office 3 Tom Stafford (1930–2024) 1962 NASA Group 2 August 7, 1969 June 25, 1971 Stafford held the position while Shepard prepared...
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extremely dangerous fire hazard. In a 1997 oral history, astronaut Thomas P. Stafford commented on the Gemini 6 launch abort in December 1965, when he and...
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handful of small bells carried by American astronauts Wally Schirra and Thomas P. Stafford aboard Gemini 6A. Upon achieving a space rendezvous in Earth orbit...
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opponent of the Iraq War and warrantless wiretapping of US citizens. Thomas P. Stafford, U.S. Air Force, NASA astronaut, flew on Gemini 6A, Gemini 9, Apollo...
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located at the Thomas P. Stafford Airport. The museum is named for legendary astronaut and flight pioneer Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford, a native of Weatherford...
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Sir William Stafford, of Chebsey, in Staffordshire (c. 1508 – 5 May 1556) was an Essex landowner and the second husband of Mary Boleyn, who was the sister...
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Mercury mission and the Gemini IX spacecraft flown by Gene Cernan and Thomas P. Stafford in 1966. In the 1980s, the six then-surviving Mercury Seven astronauts...
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Buckingham, daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Buckingham (later Duke of Gloucester), youngest son of King Edward III of England. Stafford was an important...
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II missile, repainted as GLV-9 12564 (Gemini 9A), is on display at the Stafford Air & Space Museum. A Gemini-Titan II full-scale replica was erected for...
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Mercury one, so the height requirement was relaxed slightly. This made Thomas P. Stafford eligible. A college degree was now required, but could be in the biological...
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Nancy Elizabeth Stafford (born June 5, 1954) is an American actress, speaker and author, known for her roles on television. She came to prominence in the...
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of Nebraska Press, 2007, p. 11. Hacker, Barton; Grimwood, James (1966). On the Shoulders of Titans. Washington D.C.: NASA. p. 236. This article incorporates...
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Ursula Pole, Baroness Stafford (c.1504 – 12 August 1570) was an English noblewoman; the wife of Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford; a wealthy heiress and...
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Apollo–Soyuz (category Thomas P. Stafford)
was the last Apollo module to fly. The three American astronauts, Thomas P. Stafford, Vance D. Brand, and Deke Slayton, and two Soviet cosmonauts, Alexei...
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Space/Smithsonian. Vol. 33, no. 5. p. 39. Retrieved March 16, 2019. Vantine, William (October 15, 1997). "Thomas P. Stafford Oral History". Johnson Space Center...
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Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford (18 September 1501 – 30 April 1563) was an English nobleman. After the execution for treason in 1521 and posthumous...
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Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 6th Earl of Stafford, 7th Baron Stafford, KG (15 August 1402 – 10 July 1460) of Stafford Castle in Staffordshire...
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Moon. Apollo 10, carrying astronauts Eugene Cernan, John Young, and Thomas P. Stafford, was recovered in the South Pacific on 26 May. On 30 January 1970...
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11), Vladimir Shatalov, Andriyan Nikolayev, and American astronaut Thomas P. Stafford. Dobrovolsky was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet...
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At about 3:30 p.m. on April 8, 2009, Stafford left Oliver Stephens Public School to go home, and was captured on security camera at 3:32 p.m. being led...
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