Awarded National Aviation Hall of Fame (2020).
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Richard F. Gordon
Richard Francis Gordon Jr. was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and a football executive. He was one of 24 Apollo astronauts to reach 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.
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business · American astronaut and lunar explorer (1929–2017) · military officer · test pilot · astronaut · screenwriter · aircraft pilot · chemist · businessperson · also Richard F. Gordon, Richard F. Gordon Jr., Richard Francis Gordon, Jr., Richard Gordon, Dick Gordon, Gordon
Born 5 October 1929 · Died 6 November 2017 · Q502963
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2020· 2 entries
Gordon was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio
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2017· 1 entry
Died 2017-11-06.
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2010· 1 entry
Published “QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data” in Nature Methods — cited 30,983 times.
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded International Space Hall of Fame (1982).
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1979· 1 entry
Published “Electrophoretic transfer of proteins from polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose sheets: procedure and some applications.” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — cited 34,268 times.
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1970· 1 entry
Won NASA Distinguished Service Medal (1970).
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1957· 1 entry
Attended the United States Naval Test Pilot School at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, and served as a flight test pilot until 1960
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1947· 1 entry
Then entered the University of Washington, from where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1951 and he was also a member of Phi Sigma Kappa
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1929· 2 entries
The first of five children of Richard Francis Gordon Sr
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Born 1929-10-05.
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