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Mr. Gordon floated outside his spacecraft during a spacewalk on the Gemini 11 mission in 1966.
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Richard Gordon
Died on November 6, 2017 at age 88
Mr. Gordon undertook what became a harrowing and abortive spacewalk in a 1966 NASA mission, then orbited the moon three years later. But he never achieved his dream of walking on the lunar surface.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.