Richard F. Gordon Jr., American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 2017)

Richard F. Gordon Jr.

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1929–2017)

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…