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11-29-1972
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29 November 1972
MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS
STAFFORD NOW GENERAL – Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford has been promoted from colonel to brigadier general in the U. S. Air Force. Pinning a star on the shoulders of the new one-star general during ceremonies at the Manned Spacecraft Center on November 29, 1972, are Dr. Christopher C. Kraft Jr., MSC Director, and the astronaut’s wife, Mrs. Faye Stafford. General Stafford, Deputy Director of Flight Crew Operations at MSC, flew on the Geminis 6 and 9 and Apollo 10 space missions.
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Stafford, Tom Stafford, Thomas Stafford, Thomas P. Stafford, Kraft, Faye Stafford, General, Colonel