Richard F. Gordon Jr. was the command module pilot of apollo-12 (Nov 1969). Per Newsweek coverage of pursue Release 02 (src-newsweek-pursue-release-02-2026-05), Gordon — along with pete-conrad and alan-bean — appears in a post-mission medical-debrief audio describing eyes-closed “flashes” during sleep periods; NASA later attributed the phenomenon to internal visual effects (cosmic-ray phosphenes).