On May 18, 1969, Apollo 10 launched on a mission to the moon. Apollo 10 was considered a "dress rehearsal" for a lunar landing. It did everything the same as a real lunar landing mission, except for ...

ALSO, JUST INTO THE NEWSROOM HERE AT NINE, GENERAL THOMAS STAFFORD, THE NAMESAKE OF THE STAFFORD AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM IN WEATHERFORD, HAS REPORTEDLY PASSED AWAY AND THE MUSEUM HERE ANNOUNCING THAT HE ...

This Aug. 23, 1965 photo provided by NASA shows astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, near the NASA Motor Vessel Retriever in the Gulf of Mexico during training. Stafford, who commanded a dress rehearsal ...

HOUSTON—U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. (ret.) Thomas Stafford, who commanded NASA’s May 1969 Apollo 10 mission to the Moon and led the Apollo crew that participated in a historic linkup with Soviet ...

The commander of 1969’s Apollo 10 died on Monday in Florida at the age of 93 Bettmann Archive/Getty NASA astronaut Thomas Stafford has died at the age of 93. The commander of 1969’s Apollo 10 died on ...

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 retired Air ...