Tom Stafford, one of NASA's early astronauts ... The event was marked with photos of Stafford and cosmonaut Alexey Leonov shaking hands where the two craft were joined. The Apollo-Soyuz Test ...

"Today, General Tom Stafford went to the eternal heavens ... Brand and Donald "Deke" Slayton rounded out the Apollo crew. Alexei Leonov, the first person to perform a spacewalk, commanded the ...

"We have capture," Stafford radioed in Russian as the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft hooked up. His Russian counterpart, Alexei Leonov, responded in English: "Well done, Tom, it was a good show.

Tom Stafford made four trips to space ... was memorialized by a photo of Stafford shaking the hand of the cosmonaut Alexey Leonov—a snap that circulated far and wide at the time, leading ...

The passing of Tom Stafford leaves only seven surviving ... manned by cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov. It was the first joint mission between old Cold War foes. After docking, Stafford ...

“We have capture,” Stafford radioed in Russian as the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft hooked up. His Russian counterpart, Alexei Leonov, responded in English: “Well done, Tom, it was a good sho ...

Thomas P. Stafford, an astronaut who pioneered cooperation ... of man,” he told the two Soviet astronauts, Lt. Col. Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov. The Cold War would linger until the collapse ...

Sean Murphy/AP “We have capture,” Stafford radioed in Russian as the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft hooked up. His Russian counterpart, Alexei Leonov, responded in English: “Well done ...

“We have capture,” Stafford radioed in Russian as the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft hooked up. His Russian counterpart, Alexei Leonov, responded in English: “Well done, Tom, it was a good sho ...

The event was marked with photos of Stafford and cosmonaut Alexey Leonov shaking hands where the two craft were joined. Astronaut Tom Stafford (left) and cosmonaut Alexey Leonov shake hands after ...