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Bookmark or Share- Richard F. Gordon Jr. - WikipediaRichard 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]
- Former Astronaut Richard F. Gordon, Jr. - NASAQuick 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.
- Dick Gordon, NASA Astronaut and Apollo 12 Pilot, Dead at 88 - NBC NewsRichard F. Gordon, Jr., a former NASA astronaut who in 1969 became one of only two dozen people ever to have flown to the moon, died yesterday at the age of 88 at his home in California. NASA...
- Richard F. Gordon, Jr. Oral History - NASAWhat? From an astronaut’s perspective? Gordon: We—when we first came, we had ground school-type activity. We were in lectures and learning the phraseology and the business of space, I guess you might say.
- NASA Astronaut Dick Gordon Has Died At Age 88 - NPRAstronaut Dick Gordon who flew to the moon but never got a chance to walk on the surface has died at his California home at age 88, according to NASA.
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