Richard Francis Gordon Jr.
Richard Francis Gordon Jr.;Richard Gordon
Place: Seattle
Born: 1929
Death: 2017
Biography:
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. Gordon had already flown in space as the pilot of the 1966 Gemini 11 mission. Gordon was born in Seattle, Washington, United States and died in 2017.
