Thomas P. Stafford, a career astronaut, commander of the Apollo 10 spaceflight, and key figure in the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday. He was 93.

CAPE KENNEDY -- Apollo 10 hurtled away yesterday on its lonely mission to skim over the craters of the moon, the last daring test for a lunar landing this summer.

Apollo 10 completed a flight of 192 hours, three minutes, 23 seconds – one minute, 24 seconds longer than planned. The astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean around 12:52 p.m. Eastern and ...

But “Apollo 10 ½” made it into the race as what Linklater called “a late entry” even though it had premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2022.

Apollo 10’s return to Earth set the world’s record for fastest speed by a crewed vehicle at 24,791 mph (39,897 kph). After the moon landings ended, ...

Richard Linklater’s “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood” revisits the 1969 moon landing through the memories of a boy who imagines traveling there himself.It premiered at the SXSW Film ...

After no small controversy and outcry, the Oscars have decided “Apollo 10 1/2” is an animated film, after all. Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped animated film has been declared eligible for ...

Before Apollo 10, Stafford also took part in the first rendezvous of two U.S. spacecraft in 1965. A decade later, he because the first American to shake hands with a Soviet citizen in space when ...