NASA Astronaut Dick Gordon Has Died At Age 88

Astronaut Dick Gordon has died. He is shown being inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2009 at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

As a child in the Great Depression, he never dreamed of being a pilot — let alone an astronaut who would be just one of 24 people to fly to the moon. He had two of the early spacewalks.

(Image credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann)