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Thomas Stafford commanded Apollo 10 in 1969, the second crewed mission to orbit the Moon, during which he and Gene Cernan became the first to fly a lunar module in lunar orbit, descending to within nine miles of the surface. He also commanded the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975, the first joint U.S.-Soviet space mission, and became the first general officer to fly in space.
The Apollo 10 capsule reached 24,791 mph during its return trajectory, setting the record for the fastest speed ever traveled by a human being. The spacecraft splashed down east of Samoa.
Stafford managed development of the XST program at Edwards AFB, which evolved into the F-117 Nighthawk. He also pushed for and started a larger stealth attack aircraft program he called Senior Trend, which became the F-117A. The F-117A flew just two years and eight months after the contract with Lockheed was signed and became operational in under five years.
As the Apollo command module descended on the 24th of July 1975, nitrogen tetroxide from the reaction control thrusters flooded the cabin. Crewmate Vance Brand lost consciousness, and Stafford assisted him before putting on oxygen masks. All three crew members were hospitalized in Hawaii for edema caused by fuel inhalation.
The Stafford Air and Space Museum was founded in Weatherford, Oklahoma, in 1993 and has grown to over 63,000 square feet of artifact space. It is a Smithsonian affiliate and the only museum in the world to house test-fired engines from both sides of the Space Race: a U.S. F-1 engine and a Soviet NK-33 engine. It also holds the Gemini 6 spacecraft that Stafford and Wally Schirra flew in 1965.
Alexei Leonov, who commanded Soyuz 19 during the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission, became a lasting friend of Stafford's after the mission. Leonov served as godfather to Stafford's younger children, and when Leonov died in October 2019, Stafford delivered the eulogy in Russian.