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Richard Gordon, Gemini and Apollo astronaut, dies at 88

November 9, 2017 Stephen Clark

Richard “Dick” Gordon, a Navy test pilot-turned-astronaut who pioneered spacewalking procedures and orbited the moon, died at his home this week in California. He was 88.