Astronaut John Young, Who Walked on the Moon and Led 1st Shuttle Mission, Dies at 87

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Astronaut John Young, Who Walked on the Moon and Led 1st Shuttle Mission, Dies at 87
By Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor | January 6, 2018 01:07pm ET
https://www.space.com/39307-astronaut-john-young-moonwalker-shuttle-commander-obituary.html

John Young, seen here training for NASA’s Apollo 16 moon landing mission in December 1971, died on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 at the age of 87. Credit: NASA

John Young, NASA's longest-serving astronaut, who walked on the moon and flew on the first Gemini and space shuttle missions, has died.

The first person to fly six times into space — seven, if you count his launch off of the moon in 1972 — and the only astronaut to command four different types of spacecraft [Ed: Gemini, the Apollo Command/Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle], Young died on Friday (Jan. 5) following complications from pneumonia.. He was 87.

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