STS-1 Autographed Crew Photo-Young/Crippen

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John Watts Young
(born September 24, 1930), (
Capt
,
USN
, Ret.), is a retired
American
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,
[
1
]
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 in 1969 was the first person to orbit the Moon alone during
Apollo 10
. He is one of only three people to have twice
journeyed to the Moon
,
[
2
]
and drove the
Lunar Roving Vehicle
on the
Moon
's surface. 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.
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