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The budget line that erased his launch clock - did he make it?
Richard Gordon, orbiting the Moon, watched the surface below - a single budget line erased the launch clock for his mission: did he make it in time?
The budget line that erased his launch clock - did he make it?
In this episode, we follow Richard F. Gordon Jr.'s path from naval aviator and test pilot to Gemini and Apollo astronaut, and trace the career arithmetic that led to a cancelled lunar command. What happens when mission rotation, merit and politics collide with a federal appropriation?
Person: Richard Francis Gordon Jr.
Date: Born October 5, 1929; NASA selected October 1963; Apollo…
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