Thomas Stafford was aboard Apollo 10 in the spring of 1969. That mission was the dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 moon landing that summer.
I've grown to appreciate these men even more, even though we stopped going to the moon long ago. They made it look so easy, but as we've learned, the space program was anything but easy. There was no guarantee any of this stuff would work. There was no guarantee they would get there, and clearly, there was no guarantee they were coming home.
Thomas Stafford was 93.
According to NASA, there are only eight remaining astronauts from the lunar program.
