John Young (astronaut)
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| NASA Astronaut | |
| Nationality | American |
| Status | Retired |
| Born | John Watts Young September 24, 1930 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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Other occupation
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Naval aviator, test pilot |
| Georgia Institute of Technology, B.S. 1952 | |
| Rank | Captain, USN |
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Time in space
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34d 19h 39m |
| Selection | 1962 NASA Group 2 |
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Total EVAs
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3 |
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Total EVA time
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20h 14m 14s |
| Missions | Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9 |
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Mission insignia
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| Retirement | December 31, 2004 |
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Captain John Watts Young (born September 24, 1930) is an American former astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer, who became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.
Young enjoyed the longest career of any astronaut, becoming the first person to make six space flights over the course of 42 years of active NASA service, and is the only person to have piloted, and been commander of, four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command/Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle.
In 1965, Young flew on the first manned Gemini mission, and commanded another Gemini mission the next year. In 1969, he became the first person to orbit the Moon alone during Apollo 10. He drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon's surface during Apollo 16, and is one of only three people to have flown to the Moon twice. He also commanded two Space Shuttle flights, including its first launch in 1981, and served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1974–1987. Young retired from NASA in 2004.
Young was born in San Francisco, California, on September 24, 1930, to parents William Hugh Young and Wanda Howland Young. At 18 months old, due to the Great Depression, he moved with his family to Georgia, then to Orlando, Florida, where he attended grade school and later Orlando High School until graduating in 1948.
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