Cosmonaut / Astronaut · USA
Tom Stafford
NationalityUSA
Spaceflights2
SPACEFLIGHTS
Apollo 1018 May 1969
In May 1969, Apollo 10 was the dress rehearsal for the Moon landing. The crew of Stafford, Young and Cernan flew the Lunar Module to within 15 km of the lunar surface — doing everything except the landing itself.open article →
Apollo–Soyuz15 July 1975
Apollo–Soyuz (ASTP) was the first joint Soviet–American crewed flight, on 15–24 July 1975. The American Apollo docked with the Soviet Soyuz 19 and Tom Stafford shook hands with Alexei Leonov — the first international docking and a symbolic end to the space race.open article →