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Bean, Alan LaVern (1932-...), a United States astronaut, piloted the lunar module Intrepid on the Apollo 12 mission. In November 1969, this flight accomplished the second landing of astronauts on the moon. Bean and astronaut Charles Conrad, Jr., spent 31 hours on the moon. The third member of the crew, Richard F. Gordon, Jr., remained in orbit around the moon in the command module, Yankee Clipper.
Garneau, gahr NOH, Marc (1949-...), was the first Canadian to travel in space. Garneau, a captain in the Royal Canadian Navy, accompanied six… More>>
Haise, Fred Wallace, Jr. (1933-...), served as lunar module pilot of the United States Apollo 13 space flight in April 1970. About 56 hours after… More>>
Cooper, Gordon (1927-2004), a United States astronaut, was the first person to make two orbital space flights. Virgil I. Grissom made two space… More>>
Worden, Alfred Merrill (1932-...), a United States astronaut, was the command module pilot on the Apollo 15 mission. The Apollo 15 mission was the… More>>
Bondar, Roberta (1945-...), a doctor of medicine, became the first Canadian woman to travel in space. In January 1992, she and six other astronauts… More>>
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