Tag: Apollo 10
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Thomas Stafford, who flew to the Moon and docked with Soyuz, dies at 93
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 was perhaps the most accomplished astronaut of his era who never walked on the Moon. He flew in space four times, helping…
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Astronaut Gene Cernan, last Apollo moonwalker, dies at 82
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Gene Cernan on the moon in 1972. Credit: NASA Former astronaut Gene Cernan, a Navy pilot and veteran of NASA’s pioneering Gemini program who was the second American to walk in space and then flew to the moon twice as an Apollo astronaut, becoming the last human to…
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Apollo 10’s moon music mystery revisited
Apollo 10’s Gene Cernan, Tom Stafford and John Young sit for their official portrait. (Credit: NASA) Where did the weird, outer-spacey music that Apollo 10’s astronauts heard on the far side of the moon come from? The case was solved decades ago. Or was it??? “NASA’s Unexplained Files,” airing on the Science Channel, leaves the mystery hanging…