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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. Gordon had already flown in space as the pilot of the 1966 Gemini 11 mission.

1929 — 2017  WikimediaWikidata
Dick Gordon, Jr., Richard Francis Gordon, Richard Gordon
aircraft pilot, test pilot, military officer, chemist, businessperson, screenwriter, astronaut, 

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  • Apollo 12
    second crewed Moon landing
  • Gemini 11
    ninth crewed spaceflight mission of NASA's Project Gemini
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