OBITUARY: Former NASA Astronaut Thomas Stafford, 93, Passes Away
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Former NASA astronaut Thomas Stafford, who flew to the moon before leading the first international space mission carried out by the United States and Russia, died at the age of 93 on Monday at home in Satellite Beach after an extended illness, according to Max Ary, director of the Stafford Air and Space Museum in Oklahoma.
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