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Richard F. Gordon Jr.

1929 - 2017

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard F. Gordon Jr. has received more than 454,606 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard F. Gordon Jr. is the 58th most popular astronaut (up from 61st in 2019), the 2,900th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,984th in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 36

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  • 5.10

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Richard F. Gordon Jr. ranks 58 out of 524Before him are Toktar Aubakirov, Michael J. Smith, Viktor Patsayev, Phạm Tuân, Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa, and Viktor Gorbatko. After him are Sally Ride, Judith Resnik, Ronald Evans, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Dick Scobee, and Georgi Ivanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Richard F. Gordon Jr. ranks 156Before him are Anne Meara, Shakuntala Devi, Jane Powell, Gabriel Urgebadze, Joe Pass, and René Laloux. After him are Sixten Jernberg, Claude Rich, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, Lennart Skoglund, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and Jacques Deray. Among people deceased in 2017, Richard F. Gordon Jr. ranks 140Before him are Tom Petty, John Wetton, Hans Schäfer, Lyudmila Chernykh, Aleksey Batalov, and Viktor Gorbatko. After him are Claude Rich, Linda Nochlin, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Dionigi Tettamanzi, Umberto Lenzi, and Bernard Francis Law.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard F. Gordon Jr. ranks 2,900 out of 18,182Before him are Joan Bennett (1910), Richard Hamming (1915), Jeff Porcaro (1954), Lesley Gore (1946), Leon Czolgosz (1873), and William Zabka (1965). After him are Basil Poledouris (1945), Matt Cameron (1962), Mary-Louise Parker (1964), Randy Schekman (1948), Alfred Lunt (1892), and John Phillip Law (1937).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Richard F. Gordon Jr. ranks 29Before him are Fred Haise (1933), Ken Mattingly (1936), Gordon Cooper (1927), Wally Schirra (1923), Thomas P. Stafford (1930), and Michael J. Smith (1945). After him are Sally Ride (1951), Judith Resnik (1949), Ronald Evans (1933), Dick Scobee (1939), Charles Duke (1935), and Joseph A. Walker (1921).