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Thomas Stafford, RIP

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Thomas Stafford, Air Force test pilot and astronaut, is dead at 93.  As 
a test pilot, he authored texts still in use by test pilots.  As an 
astronaut, Stafford flew on Gemini 6A and 9A, Apollo 10, and ASTP.  He 
also served the astronaut corps as an adminitrator (chief of NASA's 
atronaut corps, deputy director of flight crew operations, oversight 
committee for post-Columbia compliance, and chairman of NASA's ISS 
Advisory Committee).


Ad Astra.

/dps


-- 
"Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself 
is a good thing to do,  You may be a fool but you're the fool in 
charge." -- Carl Reiner

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