# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-f-gordon
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:50:41.800Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-f-gordon"
name: "Richard F. Gordon"
slug: "richard-f-gordon"
description: "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."
tagline: "American astronaut (1929–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RichardFGordon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-10-05"
deathDate: "2017-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.09050933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0330543"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump