Science and Technology

What spaceflights did John Young pilot?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/spaceflights-did-john-young-pilot-263988.html" >What spaceflights did John Young pilot?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

Young served as pilot of Gemini 3 (Mar. 23, 1965), command pilot of Gemini 10 (July 18-21, 1966), command-module pilot of the Apollo 10 lunar-orbit mission (May 18-26, 1969), and commander of the Apollo 16 lunar-landing mission (Apr. 16-27, 1972), during which he became the ninth person to walk on the moon.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about John Watts Young from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition at Encyclopedia.com.

Similar questions: What space shuttles did John Watts Young pilot? What space missions did John Watts Young go on? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

Alan Shepard, first American in space, dies at 74.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times ...remember the early spaceflights will always remember...passenger than pilot. Scientists...on Navy test pilot had paid off...aboard and he did it. That was...signature on another spaceflight. Though NASA...from a desk. Younger men went to the...including Sen. John Glenn, ...
Former Arlee, Mont., Teacher to Fly in Space.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News ...to her first spaceflight, the STS-118...but I really did not want to leave...that Senator John Glenn would fly...was to get a spaceflight she should be...installed by John Herrington...include test pilots, engineers, and scientists. The youngest is 18 years younger than ...
How lady astronauts were excluded.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service ...will be following John Glenn more this...qualified for the young astronaut program...mental fitness for spaceflight. A group of independent...reported, ``I did sneak a couple...the other women did well _ frankly...Carpenter and John Glenn. Women...military jet test pilots. ...
Moonwalk resonates in memory; Astronauts, earthbound recall details of...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) ...who served as pilot of the lunar module...things that we did, he said. But...Force fighter pilot who ultimately...forget this human spaceflight, Mr. Aldrin...Apollo 11 - a young man in a short...melting pot of young people - the average...next flight. John Hirasaki was ...
Astronaut sets gaze on space record, moon mission
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ...failed fighter-pilot school, the traditional...Abbott, NASA's spaceflight training chief at...selections, said NASA's John Olson, who is based...Fincke would be young enough to be in the...Much of what he did after that was geared...to have someone so young be so busy," said...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.