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... . I also worked for two of the support crew. Penny Study was secretary to Tom Thomas P. Stafford at the time. She was unable to go to the Cape, and I had ... think Mercury days. My first trip to the Cape, was on Apollo 10, working with Tom Stafford and Gene Eugene A. Cernan and John Young, who was in Flight E also. But ... . Tom Stafford still says that that is one of his, if not his favorite photo. '''Wright:''' He still refers to you how? '''Coplin:''' The Snoopy girl. Almost 40 years later, and Tom still ...

... we had moved. So, that kind of thing. There were egos abound, like with Tom Thomas P. Stafford. He was the commander of that thing. He and I had a little running ... debriefing his end of it, and he keeps referring to Tom Stafford as "Stafford." It was " Donald K. “Deke” Slayton this," it was "Stafford that." You know, " Vance D. Brand this, Brand that." And ... mention of it. So he sat down and called Stafford up. We were standing on the tables, you know, and I said, "Tom, in commemoration of your ability to freeze up cooling ...

... the Gemini Program. Warren and I came in from MCDAC and with Wally and Tom, Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford. They had this big meeting about whether my rendezvous procedures were any good ... and put on the headsets there and listened to what was going on in case Tom Stafford, who was doing the monitoring and telling Wally when to make corrections and so forth ... that we wanted to do. '''Butler:''' Where you were you? You mentioned with Schirra and Stafford that you were in the control room and following their mission that they were going ...

... one because Deke Donald K. Slayton got his first assignment to a flight and Tom Thomas P. Stafford was the commander there, and that was a good flight crew. We always had ... Deke was the head of the astronaut office, while he was also—no, I guess, Tom Stafford might have been the head of the astronaut office at that time, but he Deke ... . They were much better at talking English than our crews were at talking Russian, although Tom Stafford got pretty darn good. He was very good at it. Deke, I shouldn't say ...

... know, but we had to tell the commander of the flight, though. It was Tom Thomas P. Stafford. He told Deke after the flight, what had happened. So he was dogged clear ... about this from Tom Stafford, and I'm not sure that's what really happened, but I won't swear that he couldn't have heard about it from Tom Stafford. I had become ...

... from West Point and Annapolis. So starting in the early ’50s, you know, Thomas P. Stafford and (let’s see) Bill William A. Anders and a few others—Mike Michael Collins ... why nobody’s really sort of applied. But I’d like it—I was hoping Tom would be one of the first father/son combinations. '''Ward:''' Well, it sounds like there ... has. Probably—certainly the most—one of the most dedicated to the program. Still there. Tom Stafford originally was a big help to me. And then, I’d say Neil Armstrong. I ...

... on the Moon. Then Apollo 10 carried a color television on board. Here comes Tom Thomas P. Stafford. He talks about the browns of the maria and the corners of the maria ... was at the Moon at very high Sun angles, Sun is right on top. What Stafford was showing was a grazing angle, to very low Sun elevation, which adds to the ... involved with the crew, because I knew the crew members anyway. It was Deke Slayton, Tom Stafford and Vance D. Brand. All of them I worked with before. We trained them well ...

... I was on my way to work, and I got a call from General Tom Thomas P. Stafford, who was the division commander or a title such as that out at Edwards ... you have an opportunity to tell Captain Young who you were, since he had called Stafford and asked? '''Gregory:''' John Young knew who I was, but—oh, during the interview? '''Wright ... , and we had our first kind of reception. It was the first time I met Tom Stafford, too. I walked up to him, and he kind of looked at me and grinned ...

... television business from a little black and white film camera, which I think Tom Thomas P. Stafford took. No, Tom took color. One of the other flights had a black and white camera ... . Now, as far as ASTP is concerned, that was an interesting flight to me, that Tom Stafford, the commander, was a personal friend, and Deke Donald K. Slayton hadn’t flown yet ...

... was on the console on the Gemini simulator while they were inside. This is Tom Thomas P. Stafford and Gene Eugene A. Cernan, and it was really cool to watch it going ... they do it. Then they were going to rendezvous and dock with the ATDA, and Tom Stafford was going to hold it all together and Gene would go outside, and that’s ... . Now he’s way out of the cabin, a long way to get back. Fortunately, Tom said, “Just settle down. Breathe, settle down. Blow off the timeline and come on back ...

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