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John Watts Young (September 24, 1930 – January 5, 2018) was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the 9th person to walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.
Gemini 3 was the first crewed mission in NASA's Project Gemini and was the first time two American astronauts flew together into space. On March 23, 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, which they nicknamed Molly Brown. It was the first U.S. mission in which the crew fired thrusters to ...
For his technical assignment, Stafford was tasked as an astronaut liaison for the development of Apollo guidance and navigation systems, as well as the command and service module. In late 1966, he was reassigned to Apollo 2 backup commander, with Apollo 10 crewmates John Young as the command module pilot and Gene Cernan as the lunar module pilot.
Young, who went to space six times, died on Friday night at his home in Houston following complications from pneumonia. John Young, 'most experienced' US astronaut, dies at 87 Skip to main content
John Young most commonly refers to: John Young (astronaut) (1930–2018), American astronaut John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar (1807–1876), British diplomat and politician
The main article for this category is John Young, NASA astronaut. Pages in category "John Young (astronaut)" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
While Barbie added "astronaut" to her long list of careers in 1965 — four years before man landed on the moon — this marks the first time in the doll's 63-year history that Barbie dolls were ...
Cernan is one of only three astronauts to travel to the Moon on two occasions, along with Jim Lovell and John Young. He is also one of only twelve people to have walked on the Moon , as well as the only person to have flown in two different Apollo Lunar Modules in space while not docked to the Apollo Command and Service Module , both times near ...