Former NASA astronaut Thomas Stafford, a three-star Air Force general known for a historic handshake in space with a Soviet cosmonaut nearly 50 years ago, died Monday in Florida. He was 93. Stafford ...

(WHTM) On July 15, 1975, two rockets blasted off into space. The Soviet Union’s Soyuz 19 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:20 a.m. EDT, carrying cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery ...

If there was a common theme to the four missions Stafford flew, it was 'meetings in space.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The latest Soyuz mission to the International Space Station did more than deliver a fresh crew: it underscored how, even in a tense geopolitical climate, American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts ...