Young was the first astronaut to command the Space Shuttle. Astronaut John W. Young, Apollo 16 Mission Commander, poses for a portrait at the Madded Spacecraft Center in Houston in 1971.

American astronaut John Young, 87, died on Saturday, after a career of many firsts: first man to fly in space six times, pilot of the first Gemini mission, commander of the first shuttle flight, and ...

John Young, just before the launch of his first space mission, Gemini 3, in 1965. Even if he hadn’t made two trips to the moon and walked on its surface, John Young, who died last Friday at the age of ...

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