Thomas Stafford, astronaut whose space handshake with a Soviet helped thaw the Cold War – obituary

Thomas Stafford, right, shakes hands with Alexei Leonov in the port tunnel between Apollo and Soyuz on July 17, 1975 – AFP General Thomas Stafford, who has died aged 93, was not one of the 12 astronauts to walk on the moon, but in May 1969, as commander of Apollo 10, he played a crucial … Read more