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John Young, who had the longest career of any NASA astronaut, passed away on January 5 at age 87. Since I was out of town at the time, I wrote this addendum to last week’s TDIAH post today.
Young in 1963 during Gemini 3 (NASA)
January 5, 2018 – The death of John Young, an American aeronautical engineer, US Naval Aviator, test pilot, and astronaut. Young was born in San Francisco, California, on September 24, 1930 and began flying with the US Navy as a helicopter pilot in 1954 before transferring to jets, flying !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! from USS Coral Sea and !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! from USS Forrestal . Young then joined NASA in 1962 as part of Astronaut Group 2 and was the first member of his group to fly in space when he joined !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! in the first manned flight of the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! program in 1965. During his time with the space agency, Young made six space flights including !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , where he became the first man to orbit the Moon alone, and !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , where he drove the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! on the Moon. His flights aboard two Apollo missions made Young one of only three astronauts who have flown to the Moon twice. He made the first of two flights aboard the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! as commander of the maiden flight in 1981, making him the only astronaut to fly in four different classes of space vehicle: !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and the Space Shuttle. Young’s retirement from NASA in 2004 after 42 years of service marked the end of the longest career of any NASA astronaut. His logbook contains more than 15,275 hours of flying time in all manner of powered aircraft (more than 9,200 hours in !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! alone), and 835 hours in spacecraft logged over the course of six space flights.
Young salutes the American flag on the Moon during Apollo 16 mission in a photo taken by astronaut Charles Duke Jr. on April 21, 1972 (NASA)
Young, left, with Shuttle Pilot Robert Crippen, the crew of STS-1, the first Space Shuttle mission in 1981 (NASA)