Richard Francis Gordon, Jr., Captain, USN, Ret. (born October 5, 1929) is a retired NASA astronaut. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon. ...
The Apollo 12 Saturn V carrying Al Bean, Pete Conrad, and Dick Gordon launched on November 14, 1969. Four plus days later, the Lunar Module carrying Bean and Conrad dropped down from lunar orbit to the Moons surface and landed on November 19. The astronauts spent over a day on the Moon, then return
There are a lot of books and articles about the shenanigans he and fellow Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon pulled on their mission. They were cutups, and their journey was not at all like the formal voyage Apollo 11 was. I'll leave it to the interested reader to find more.
Date: May 28, 2018
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02-13 Blog/Opinon: Olympic-sized misstep by national media
understood. Those such as Bentley and Bennett; heroes like Texas State Trooper Damon Allen, who was taken from us this past Thanksgiving; giants like Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott; or icons like astronauts Eugene Cernan and Dick Gordon, both moon-travelers, were not only here to bring us their light.
Date: Feb 13, 2018
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Apollo 12 astronaut Richard 'Dick' Gordon passes away at 88
Dick Gordon is an American hero, and a true renaissance man by any measure, Curt Brown, board chairman of the Orlando-based Astronaut Scholarship Foundation and an astronaut and veteran of six space flights, said in a statement on the foundations website. He was an American naval officer and aviI was very sorry to hear about the passing of Dick Gordon. Although not a close friend, I had numerous opportunities to be at technical seminars or social events with Dick, former NASA astronaut Robert C. Springer told SpaceFlight Insider. As Naval aviators, we shared the joy of our flight experi
Date: Nov 08, 2017
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Gordon calls Lascañas a 'juke box', discourages another hearing
Ang sampal ay hindi kay Dick Gordon, nasa Senado kasi nasinungaling ka sa Senado. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. There is no second chance. Walang baril na nakatutok sa ulo ni Lascaas nung humarap siya dito, said Gordon.(Its not a slap in the face of Dick Gordon, but of the Senate because you [Lascaas] already lied to the Senate. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. There is no second chance. No one was pointing a gun at him to talk when he last appeared before the Senate.)
that of a strict disciplinarian father reminiscent of Lee Kuan Yew. Where else in the Philippines can we find people accepting a ban on smoking and drinking in public places? Other than Subic in the days of Dick Gordon, where else do people actually observe speed limits and obey other traffic rules?
The MMRD-NEC officially endorsed Aldin Ali, Rafael Alunan, Greco Belgico, Dick Gordon, Teofisto Guingona III, Dante Liban, Serge Osmea, Jericho Petilla, Roman Romulo, Dionisio Santiago, Francis Tolentino and Migz Zubiri as part of Dutertes senatorial slate.
Date: Apr 27, 2016
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[ April 12, 2016 ] Final space shuttle fuel tank in existence heads to California museum News
center will have three halls air, space and shuttle to host a variety of artifacts, aircraft and spacecraft. The current CSC museum already houses three space capsules Mercury 2 that launched the chimpanzee named Ham in 1961, Gemini 11 flown by Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon in 1966 and the U.S. com