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    John Watts Young (September 24, 1930 – January 5, 2018) was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He...
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  • John Young most commonly refers to: John Young (astronaut) (1930–2018), American astronaut John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar (1807–1876), British diplomat...
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    (NASA). The Chief Astronaut serves as head of the NASA Astronaut Corps and is the principal advisor to the NASA Administrator on astronaut training and operations...
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    An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek ἄστρον (astron), meaning 'star', and ναύτης (nautes), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed...
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    Gemini 3 (category John Young (astronaut))
    the first time two American astronauts flew together into space. On March 23, 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits...
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    STS-1 (category John Young (astronaut))
    Commander John Young and pilot Robert Crippen were selected as the STS-1 crew in early 1978. Young stated that as the Chief of the Astronaut Office he...
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    STS-9 (category John Young (astronaut))
    scientist-astronaut Garriott had spent 56 days in orbit in 1973 aboard Skylab. Commanding the mission was veteran astronaut John W. Young, making his...
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    Apollo 10 (category John Young (astronaut))
    spacecraft reached lunar orbit, astronaut John Young remained in the Command and Service Module (CSM) while astronauts Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan...
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    Big Muley (category John Young (astronaut))
    rim of Plum crater (Station 1) in the Descartes highlands of the Moon. Astronaut Charlie Duke said as he was picking up the sample, "If I fall into Plum...
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    of 14 astronauts in 1963, Collins flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was on Gemini 10 in 1966, in which he and Command Pilot John Young performed...
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  • From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries) (category John Young (astronaut))
    30 of the 32 astronauts who flew, or were preparing to fly, the twelve missions of the Apollo program. (The only two Apollo astronauts not portrayed...
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    John Young, a NASA astronaut and one of twelve men to walk on the Moon, who was from the Orlando area. SR 423 is signed north-south when named John Young...
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    Gemini 10 (category John Young (astronaut))
    nautical miles)). During the mission, flown by future STS-1 Commander John Young and future Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, Collins became...
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  • Bloomington YMCA in Illinois, started a club in a dinner meeting, to train young boys and men in speech, to face an audience, and to express their thoughts...
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    Apollo 16 (category John Young (astronaut))
    April 27, 1972. John Young, the mission commander, was 41 years old and a captain in the Navy at the time of Apollo 16. Becoming an astronaut in 1962 as part...
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  • Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (category John Young (astronaut))
    (voice) John Travolta as James Irwin (voice) Morgan Freeman as Neil Armstrong (voice) Gary Hershberger as Astronaut Grace Scott Wilder as Astronaut Wallace...
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    NASA Astronaut Corps is a unit of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as...
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    nine astronauts were Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman, Pete Conrad, Jim Lovell, James McDivitt, Elliot See, Tom Stafford, Ed White, and John Young. The Next...
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    when NASA hired a person into the astronaut corps who had already earned astronaut wings, X-15 pilot Joe Engle. John Young labeled the group the Original...
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    John Leonard Swigert Jr. (August 30, 1931 – December 27, 1982) was an American NASA astronaut, test pilot, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, United...
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    Cygnus NG-10 (redirect from S.S. John Young)
    S. John Young. He was the only person to fly twice on each of three NASA programs which included Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle. John Young died...
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    As part of the Apollo program by NASA, 24 astronauts flew nine missions to the Moon between December 1968 and December 1972. During six successful two-man...
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  • Countdown (Rush song) (category John Young (astronaut))
    The song incorporates audio from voice communications between astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen and ground control, specifically Ascent CAPCOM...
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    Gordon Cooper, astronaut Lana Couch (1992), NASA engineer and executive Carl Sagan, astronomer Alan Shepard, astronaut John Young, astronaut Charles L. Bennett...
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  • Worden. Veteran astronaut John Young christened this group the "Original Nineteen", in parody of the original seven Mercury astronauts. Roughly half of...
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    Hail Columbia (film) (category John Young (astronaut))
    documentary then follows John Young and Robert Crippen, who would be the Commander and Pilot for STS-1. Robert Crippen was a rookie astronaut who had never been...
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    twice-Jim Lovell, John Young and Gene Cernan-were Gemini veterans. With the exception of Elliot See, every member of NASA's second Astronaut Group—the class...
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  • The Astronaut Farmer is a 2006 American drama film directed by Michael Polish, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Mark. The film stars Billy...
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    John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third...
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    Alan Shepard (category United States Astronaut Hall of Fame inductees)
    Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut. In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to travel...
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