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1 day ago · At 3:50 p.m. the Apollo 18 spacecraft, aboard a Saturn 1B rocket, departed NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, carrying astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Donald “Deke” Slayton.
3 days ago · We check the vibes with Sam Sanders and Zach Stafford. The celebrated podcast Vibe Check started as a group chat between hosts Sam Sanders, Saeed Jones, and Zach Stafford, and they had so much fun ...
1 day ago · Chilton, after leaving NASA, became the first NASA astronaut to become a General (O-10) in the US Air Force (Lt. Gen. Thomas Stafford, USAF, and VADM Richard Truly, USN were three-star officers) and held the position of commander, US Strategic Command.
4 days ago · In a 1997 oral history, astronaut Thomas P. Stafford commented on the Gemini 6 launch abort in December 1965, when he and command pilot Wally Schirra nearly ejected from the spacecraft:
5 days ago · Retired NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Joe Engle died July 10, surrounded by his family at home in Houston. Among his many honors, he is the only astronaut to pilot both the X-15 and space shuttle. He was 91.
1 day ago · On July 15, 1975, the first joint space mission between the United States and the Soviet Union blasted off into orbit. They called it the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. This mission ceremoniously marked the end of the space race. First the Russian cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery Kubasov lifted off from Kazakhstan. A few hours later, NASA astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Donald ...
5 days ago · July 11 (UPI) -- Friends, family and former colleagues are mourning the death of retired astronaut Joe Engel, 91, who died in his Houston home on Wednesday, NASA announced. Engel was a U.S....
