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Originally posted by cash78mere
...Going on the Apollo 12 moon flight in Nov. will be Lt. Col. Richard F. Gordon Jr. whose wife is Barbara Field Gordon, Univ. of Washington. Barbara was pictured in the winter 1966-67 LYRE after Astronaut Gordon had flown on Gemini Two.
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Good info, cash78mere, only one correction (unrepentant space buff that I am
) to set the record straight :
Richard Gordon actually flew on Gemini XI (Gemini flight numbers were always in Roman numerals except for the first three missions) with Charles 'Pete' Conrad, and later flew the command module
Yankee Clipper while fellow crewmen Conrad and Alan Bean landed on the Moon during the Apollo 12 mission aboard the lunar module
Intrepid. BTW, Gordon was a Navy commander (both the Gemini XI and Apollo 12 crews were all-Navy).
Gemini 2 was an unmanned space flight test of the Gemini capsule. It later became the first space capsule to be reused (and this was long before the Space Shuttle), becoming the 'Blue Gemini' space capsule for the U.S. Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory flight test.
Hope this helps.