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Richard Francis "Dick" Gordon Jr. (October 5, 1929 – November 6, 2017) was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and a football executive. He was one of 24 people to have flown to the Moon, as command module pilot of the Apollo 12 mission, which orbited the Moon 45 times. [1]
Richard F. Gordon, Jr. (born October 5, 1929, Seattle, Washington, U.S.—died November 6, 2017, San Marcos, California) was an American astronaut who accompanied Charles Conrad on the September 1966 flight of Gemini 11. They docked with an Agena target on the first orbit and were propelled together to a record altitude of 850 miles (about ...
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Sep 28, 2023 · Quick Facts. Gordon served as the command module pilot on Apollo 12, and remained in lunar orbit aboard the command module, Yankee Clipper, taking photographs of possible future Apollo landing sites while his crewmates, Pete Conrad and Al Bean walked on the surface of the Moon.
Nov 7, 2017 · NASA. By Richard Goldstein. Nov. 7, 2017. Richard Gordon, who undertook what became a harrowing and abortive spacewalk in a 1966 NASA mission, then orbited the moon three years later, but...
Nov 7, 2017 · WASHINGTON (AP) — Apollo 12 astronaut Richard “Dick” F. Gordon Jr., one of a dozen men who flew around the moon but didn’t land there, has died, NASA said. He was 88. Gordon was a test pilot...
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Nov 7, 2017 · RELEASE 17-085. Portrait of Astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr. (10 Sept. 1964) Credits: NASA. The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot on the passing of former NASA astronaut Richard Gordon: “NASA and the nation have lost one of our early space pioneers.
Nov 10, 2017 · Fri 10 Nov 2017 12.51 EST. Of the 24 astronauts Nasa sent to the moon, only a dozen actually landed there. Richard Gordon, who has died aged 88, was one of the 12 who did not, and in some ways...
