John Young was an American NASA astronaut who flew six spaceflights across four different programs over a career spanning more than two decades, a record breadth of experience among American astronauts. He flew on Gemini 3 and commanded Gemini 10, walked on the Moon as commander of Apollo 16, and commanded the first-ever Space Shuttle flight, STS-1, in 1981. Young was one of only three people to fly to the Moon twice, and he later commanded a second Shuttle mission before retiring from spaceflight.
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John Young was a NASA astronaut who flew Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16 and two Space Shuttle missions.
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- commanded the 1966 Gemini 10 mission...In 1972, he commanded Apollo 16...Young also commanded STS-1 in 1981...and STS-9 in 1983
- In 1969, he flew as command module pilot on Apollo 10
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In 1962, Young was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut Group 2.
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In 1962, Young was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut Group 2.
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He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.
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After the spacecraft reached lunar orbit, astronaut John Young remained in the Command and Service Module (CSM) while astronauts Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan flew the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) to within 14.4 kilometers (7.8 nautical miles; 9 miles) of the lunar surface, the point at which powered descent for landing would begin on a landing mission.
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The mission was crewed by Commander John Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke and Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly.
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