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John Young

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American astronaut John Watts Young was born in San Francisco, California to parents William Hugh Young, a civil engineer, and Wanda Howland Young. He graduated from Georgia Tech in 1952, after which he joined the US Navy served as fire control officer on the destroyer USS Laws until June 1953 and completed a tour in the Sea of Japan during the Korean War. He joined NASA in 1962 where he rose to the rank of Captain. He served in the NASA operations Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, and STS-9. He spent a total of 34 days, 19 hours and 39 minutes in space. He died in January of 2018 due to complications from pneumonia.
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Despite having a falling out with NASA management after the Challenger space shuttle disaster in 1986, and subsequently being moved to managerial duties, he retained his full flight status until the day he retired from NASA on the 31 December 2004, at the age of 74. He is the only astronaut from the Apollo era to have remained with the Agency for so long, completing a unique 42-year career as an astronaut.
Only man to fly on Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle spacecraft: Pilot, Gemini 3 (1965); Commander Gemini 10 (1966); Command Module Pilot, Apollo 10 (1969); Commander, Apollo 16 (1972); Commander, STS-1 (1981); Commander, STS-9 (1983). First astronaut to achieve the record of six space flights in 1983. Two space shuttle astronauts have seven flights apiece as of June 2008; Dr Franklin Ramon Chang-Diaz and Jerry Lynn Ross.
Moonwalker (Apollo 16, 1972).
One of only three men to have visited the moon twice. Once from Orbit (Apollo 10) and the second time landing (Apollo 16, which he commanded). The others are Jim Lovell and Eugene Cernan.
Spacecraft Commander of STS-1, the first flight of the Space Shuttle, April 12-14, 1981, with Bob Crippen as Pilot.

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