LC control no. | no2022109501 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Gordon, Richard F., Jr., 1929-2017 |
Birth date | 1929-10-05 |
Death date | 2017-11-06 |
Place of birth | Seattle (Wash.) |
Place of death | San Marcos (Calif.) |
Field of activity | Aeronautics, Military Naval aviation Space flight Manned space flight Business |
Affiliation | United States. Navy United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Apollo 12 (Spacecraft) |
Profession or occupation | Air pilots, Military Astronauts Businesspeople |
Found in | For all mankind, 2009: title frame (narrator, Richard F. Gordon Jr. (Apollo 12)) Wikipedia, via WWW, August 31, 2022 (Richard Francis Gordon Jr., American naval officer, aviator, test pilot, NASA astronaut, and football executive; born October 5, 1929, in Seattle, Washington; joined the US Navy in 1953; served as a navy test pilot, 1957-1960; named an astronaut by NASA in October 1963; flew as command module pilot of Apollo 12 in November 1969; after retiring from the US Navy and NASA in 1972, entered business as an executive in various business ventures, including the New Orleans Saints football club, and in energy- and space-related industries; died in San Marcos, California, on November 6, 2017) |
Associated language | eng |