Thomas Patten Stafford (17.09.1930-18.03.2024)Thomas Patten Stafford został 61 lat temu powołany do swojej grupy astronautycznej.
Z tej grupy żyją jeszcze Frank Frederick Borman II i James Arthur 'Shaky' Lovell.
Minęło 6 miesięcy i już tylko jeden
Jeszcze 12. Amerykanów sprzed ery STS żyje.
AwS
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=5508.msg189842#msg189842Z jego rocznika pozostał już tylko jeden
Stafford zmarł w 59. rocznicę spaceru Leonowa, z którym spotkał się w 1975 na orbicie.
Thomas Stafford and Alexey LeonovJUL 18, 2015
Former NASA astronaut Thomas Stafford (left) and former Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov (right) answer reporters’ questions.At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, former NASA astronaut Thomas Stafford (left) and former Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov (right) answer reporters’ questions July 16 during a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz mission that opened a new era of space cooperation between the U.S. and Russia. Stafford commanded the Apollo spacecraft and Leonov commanded the Soyuz 19 spacecraft that docked on July 17, 1975 in the first-ever linkup of American and Russian space vehicles.
Credit: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/thomas-stafford-alexey-leonov/https://twitter.com/SpaceIntel101/status/1769733799795994750https://twitter.com/FutureJurvetson/status/1769745393192227054Today General Tom Stafford went to the eternal heavens which he so courageously explored as a Gemini and Apollo astronaut as well as a peacemaker in Apollo Soyuz. Those of us privileged to know him are very sad but grateful we knew a giant.
May he rest in symbolic immortality.
Heroic mission photo from my dining room: https://flic.kr/p/NNgcPW
“There would have been no 11 had 10 not succeeded, and in a few critical moments on the fifth day of the mission, that was very much in doubt, as astronauts Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan found themselves in a near-fatal barrel roll just 50,000 feet above the lunar surface, in a tin can of a spacecraft that had no business surviving such a crisis." — TIME
After a few expletives on the live network broadcast, they regained control just a few rolls away from a crash landing on the lunar surface.
This is also the only flown Lunar Module ascent stage that is still in orbit; the rest crashed into the moon, or in the case of Apollo 13, Earth.
Thomas Stafford, astronaut who led Apollo-Soyuz mission, dies at 93March 18, 2024 — Former NASA astronaut Thomas Stafford, who flew to the moon before leading the first international space mission carried out by the United States and Russia, has died at the age of 93.
Stafford's death on Monday (March 18) came after an extended illness, according to Max Ary, director of the Stafford Air and Space Museum in Oklahoma.
"This nation has lost one of its great heroes," said Ary in a call with collectSPACE. "We are so shocked and saddened by his passing. It's just hard to say because he was bigger than life." (...)
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-031824a-nasa-astronaut-thomas-stafford-obituary.htmlAstronaut Thomas Stafford, commander of Apollo 10, has died at age 93BySETH BORENSTEIN AP science writer March 18, 2024, 5:29 PM
Stafford commanded the dress rehearsal mission for the 1969 moon landing.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.
Stafford, a retired Air Force three-star general, took part in four space missions. Before Apollo 10, he flew on two Gemini flights, including the first rendezvous of two U.S. capsules in orbit. He died in a hospital near his Space Coast Florida home, said Max Ary, director of the Stafford Air & Space Museum in Weatherford, Oklahoma. (...)
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/astronaut-thomas-stafford-commander-apollo-10-died-age-108247180https://www.wdnonline.com/news/oklahoma-legend-celebrates-his-90th-birthday55 Years Ago: Gemini IX and the Angry Alligatorby John Uri | 2021-06-07
https://roundupreads.jsc.nasa.gov/roundup/1707Gemini VI-A/GT-6AWalter M. Schirra, Jr. +
Thomas P. Stafford +
Gemini IX-A/GT-9AThomas P. Stafford +
Eugene A. Cernan +
Apollo 10/AS-505Thomas P. Stafford +
John W. Young +
Eugene A. Cernan +
Apollo ASTP/AS-210Thomas P. Stafford +
Vance D. Brand 1931
*Donald K. Slayton +
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