; Whereas General Stafford set the record for the fastest speed traveled by a human during the return of the Apollo 10 mission, a record standing today and documented in the Guinness World Book of Records, at 24,791 miles per hour, or Mach 36; Whereas General Stafford’s final space mission took place in 1975 as commander of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, during which General Stafford and Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov shook hands upon docking, completing the first international space flight and helping set into motion the end of the cold war; Whereas General Stafford received the Nobel Peace Prize nomination for his role in the final space mission in 1975; Whereas General Stafford left NASA in 1975 to serve as Commander of the Air Force Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base; Whereas General Stafford, as Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development, and Acquisition, established requirements for, and initiated development of, the first stealth aircraft, the F–117A, which was the only stealth attack aircraft in the world for 25 years, and initiated the Air Force roadmap for the air superiority fighter still in use today; Whereas, just before his retirement in 1979, General Stafford wrote the specifications for, and initiated the development of, the Advanced Technology Bomber, now known as the B–2 Stealth Bomber, the only stealth bomber force in the world today, and initiated the development of the AGM–129 Advanced Cruise Missile; Whereas, from 1991 to 1993, General Stafford led NASA’s efforts to repair and service the Hubble Space Telescope and was presented with the NASA Public Service Award; Whereas, in 2011, General Stafford was awarded the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy for pioneering achievements that have led the way to the Moon, to greater international cooperation in space, and to a safer United States