John Young(1930-2018)

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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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Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Eugene Cernan, Charles Duke, Edgar D. Mitchell, Harrison Schmitt, and John Young in The Wonder of it All (2007)

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The Wonder of it All

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2007

In the Shadow of the Moon

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2007

Reaching for the Skies

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TV Series

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The Other Side of the Moon

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Self

1990

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- NASA_obit
Alternative name
- Capt. John Young
Born
- September 24, 1930
- San Francisco, California, USA
Died
- January 5, 2018
- Houston, Texas, USA(complications from pneumonia)
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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.