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10 de mar. de 2024 · John W. Young (born September 24, 1930, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died January 5, 2018, Houston, Texas) U.S. astronaut who participated in the Gemini, Apollo, and space shuttle programs. He was the first astronaut to make five—and later the first to make six—spaceflights.
22 de mar. de 2024 · Los astronautas John W. Young y Charles M. Duke, de la misión Apollo 16, se enteraron de la aprobación del transbordador espacial mientras exploraban la Luna en abril de 1972. El Control de Misión les informó que el Congreso había autorizado el desarrollo del transbordador espacial.
20 de mar. de 2024 · Right: Apollo 10 astronauts John W. Young, left, Eugene A. Cernan, and Thomas P. Stafford pose before their Saturn V rocket. On March 11, as the Apollo 9 astronauts neared the end of their mission, workers at KSC rolled the Apollo 10 Saturn V vehicle from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to its launch pad.
21 de mar. de 2024 · Apollo 16 astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke learned of the space shuttle’s approval while exploring the Moon in April 1972. Mission Control informed them that Congress had authorized the development of the space shuttle.
11 de mar. de 2024 · Occurred 58 years ago. Gemini VIII was the sixth crewed Earth-orbiting spacecraft of the Gemini series, carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott. The primary mission objectives were to perform rendezvous and four docking tests with the Agena target vehicle and to execute an ExtraVehicular Activity (EVA) experiment.
Hace 5 días · Future shuttle commander John W. Young, while exploring the Moon during Apollo 16, enthusiastically endorsed the news. Young's prophetic words about the shuttle program underscored the nation's...
Hace 3 días · On 21 April 1972 two astronauts (Apollo 16 Commander John W. Young and LM pilot Charles M. Duke, Jr.) landed in the Descartes region of the Moon in the Lunar Module (LM) while the Command and Service Module (CSM) (with CM pilot Thomas K. Mattingly, II) continued in lunar orbit.