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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]
Sep 28, 2023 · Richard F. Gordon, Jr. After graduation from the University of Washington in 1951, Richard F. “Dick” Gordon joined the U.S. Navy to train as a fighter pilot. By 1957, he was flying the F-4 Phantom II as project pilot and then later a flight instructor for the jet at the Navy Test Pilot School in Patuxent River, Maryland.
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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Nov 7, 2017 · Seattle-born Richard "Dick" F. Gordon Jr. was a test pilot chosen in NASA's third group of astronauts in 1963. He died in California at age 88.
Richard Francis "Dick" Gordon Jr. 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.
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Richard F. Gordon Jr., a naval aviator who later became one of only 24 astronauts to fly to the moon before trading in his wings entirely to become an executive of the New Orleans Saints franchise and other companies, died Monday, November 6, 2017 in his home in California, according to family and friends. He was 88 years old.
