Richard Gordon was an American NASA astronaut and United States Navy officer who flew on Gemini 11 in 1966, performing two spacewalks, and later served as command module pilot on Apollo 12 in 1969, remaining in lunar orbit while crewmates Pete Conrad and Alan Bean walked on the Moon. Gordon had been slated for a later Apollo lunar landing mission that was ultimately cancelled amid post-Apollo 13 budget cuts, so Apollo 12 remained his only trip to the Moons vicinity.
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Richard Gordon was a NASA astronaut who flew Gemini 11 and Apollo 12.
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as command module pilot of the Apollo 12 mission
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Richard Francis Gordon Jr. (October 5, 1929, November 6, 2017) was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and a football executive.
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He was one of 24 Apollo astronauts to reach the Moon, as command module pilot of the Apollo 12 mission, which orbited the Moon 45 times.
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Wikidata Q502963, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source 3. The Space Devs Launch Library 2: Launch Library 2 astronaut list, records 1 to 100
The Space Devs Launch Library 2Astronaut record 39, Richard F. Gordon Jr.Quote, Astronaut record 39, Richard F. Gordon Jr.
"name": "Richard F. Gordon Jr." ... "flights_count": 2
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Pete Conrad, Charles Conrad Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr., Alan Bean, Alan L. Bean
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