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Happy 90th, Tom Stafford

Postby Arneb » Thu Sep 17, 2020 6:53 am

Veteran of two Gemini missions & and 9), CDR ofApollo 10 and the Apollo-Soyuz test project. Together with Gene Cernan, he was the man closest to the Moon (8 miles) for two months.

He is aching to see a manned Lunar return, but obviously, time is running out on all the remaining Apollo astronauts.
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Re: Happy 90th, Tom Stafford

Postby Heid the Ba » Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:54 am

Will he be ok with the next manned lunar landing being Chinese or Indian?
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Re: Happy 90th, Tom Stafford

Postby Arneb » Thu Sep 17, 2020 2:27 pm

I don't know him personally, of course, but Michael Collins, IIRC made a point of the fact that all the Soviet Cosmonauts he met were full of professional respect and admiration for the American Lunar program. They were rivals, (and not even always friendly rivals), yes, but they knew and cherished achievement when they saw it. I guess that this would go for Tom Stafford as well. I do recall he was greatly respected by his Apollo 10 crew, and neither Gene Cernan nor John Young were small fry themselves.
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