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He did not fly a Mercury mission, but he did fly the first manned Gemini mission with Gus Grissom. Young went on to fly on Gemini 10, which proved rendevous procedures that would be used in later missions.
Three men flew to the Moon twice, and John Young was one of them (the others were Jim Lovell and Gene Cernan). Young was the command module pilot for Apollo 10, which executed a "dress rehearsal" for the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Young himself walked on the Moon as the commander of Apollo 16.
John Young was the first man to pilot a space shuttle into space and return it to Earth for a safe landing. Young and Bob Crippen took the Columbia into space in April of 1981. No one had ever taken a craft from orbit and landed it like an airplane, but Young did so, in textbook fashion.
Young was the first person to fly into space six times. If you count his launch from the surface of the Moon in the Apollo 16 LM, he flew in space seven times.
In addition, Young's resume includes work on five backup crews, as well as support and expertise that assisted with other missions. Many photos of mission control taken during the Apollo 13 crisis show Young working with Gene Kranz to bring the Apollo 13 crew home safely.
Here is John Young's NASA biography.
Fellas like John Glenn and Neil Armstrong may have gotten more coverage, but no one has a more distinguished record of service in the space program than John W. Young.
John Young is arguably the most accomplished astronaut in the history of the space program. Yet many have never heard of him.
He did not fly a Mercury mission, but he did fly the first manned Gemini mission with Gus Grissom. Young went on to fly on Gemini 10, which proved rendevous procedures that would be used in later missions.
Three men flew to the Moon twice, and John Young was one of them (the others were Jim Lovell and Gene Cernan). Young was the command module pilot for Apollo 10, which executed a "dress rehearsal" for the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Young himself walked on the Moon as the commander of Apollo 16.
John Young was the first man to pilot a space shuttle into space and return it to Earth for a safe landing. Young and Bob Crippen took the Columbia into space in April of 1981. No one had ever taken a craft from orbit and landed it like an airplane, but Young did so, in textbook fashion.
Young was the first person to fly into space six times. If you count his launch from the surface of the Moon in the Apollo 16 LM, he flew in space seven times.
In addition, Young's resume includes work on five backup crews, as well as support and expertise that assisted with other missions. Many photos of mission control taken during the Apollo 13 crisis show Young working with Gene Kranz to bring the Apollo 13 crew home safely.
Here is John Young's NASA biography.
Fellas like John Glenn and Neil Armstrong may have gotten more coverage, but no one has a more distinguished record of service in the space program than John W. Young.
