Richard Francis Gordon Jr., known as Dick. Apollo astronaut who travelled beyond low earth orbit.
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Richard F. Gordon, Jr.
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William Moorcroft
Pioneer veterinary surgeon, Asian explorer. Born Lancashire. First Englishman to qualify as a vet, in France, during a revolution. He set up in practice in Oxford Street, creating a horse hosp...
Person, Animals, Exploring, Medicine, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Tibet, Uzbekistan
1 memorial
Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Explorer and journalist, born as John Rowlands at Denbigh, Wales. Illegitimate and brought up in a workhouse, he sailed to America as a cabin boy in 1859. He befriended a trader called Henry Hope S...
Person, Exploring, Journalism / Publishing, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Africa, USA, Wales
1 memorial
Sir Martin Frobisher
Privateer, explorer, and naval commander. Born Normanton, Yorkshire, birth date approximate. Aged 15 sent to London to learn a trade at his uncle's, who was a merchant adventurer. Frobisher expl...
1 memorial
Neil A. Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong. Apollo astronaut who walked on the moon. On the recording of Armstrong, as he sets foot on the moon, after his famous “That's one small step …” there’s a little-known comment...
1 memorial
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