John Young

Apollo 10

Apollo 16

STS-1

Commander of STS-1. Already a veteran of Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, and Apollo 16 (on which he walked on the Moon), he became the only astronaut to fly Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle.

NationalityUSA

Born24 September 1930

Died5 January 2018

Spaceflights3

SPACEFLIGHTS

Apollo 1018 May 1969

In May 1969, Apollo 10 was the dress rehearsal for the Moon landing. The crew of Stafford, Young and Cernan flew the Lunar Module to within 15 km of the lunar surface — doing everything except the landing itself.open article →

Apollo 1616 April 1972

In April 1972, Apollo 16 made the first landing in the lunar highlands — in the Descartes region. The crew of Young, Mattingly and Duke explored the plateau by rover, a region scientists had wrongly believed to be volcanic.open article →

STS-112 April 1981

The first orbital flight of the Space Shuttle system. In April 1981 Columbia, crewed by John Young and Robert Crippen, tested shuttle launch, orbital operations and runway landing for the first time.open article →

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