For one Weatherford man, he always wanted to fly higher and faster. Astronaut General Thomas Stafford did just that, spending 507 hours in space. Today, family and friends gathered to remember the ...

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 ...

Former NASA astronaut Thomas Stafford, a three-star Air Force general known for a historic handshake in space with a Soviet cosmonaut nearly 50 years ago, died Monday in Florida. He was 93. Stafford ...

The Apollo-Soyuz mission, amid the Cold War, broke new ground in space cooperation when an American capsule docked with a Soviet craft 140 miles above the earth. By Richard Goldstein Thomas P.

Thomas Stafford is pictured in the Gemini 6A spacecraft while atop Pad 19 prior to the hatches being closed for launch. (Image credit: NASA) On Dec. 12, 1965, eight days after the Gemini 7 crew had ...