Apollo 12 Astronaut Gordon Dies

Credit: Richard "Dick" Gordon in 1964: NASA
HOUSTON—Richard “Dick” Gordon Jr., an early record-setting NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy aviator who walked in space more than 50 years ago to support an artificial gravity experiment and circled the Moon during the second Apollo lunar landing mission, has died. The Seattle native died at his San...

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