Astronaut John Young

[APG85]

Former Naval Aviator and illustrious Astronaut John Young has passed away (Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo16, STS-1 & STS-9). Link to a nice article on him from 13 years ago when he retired from NASA:

https://www.airspacemag.com/space/space ... /?no-cache

[Jeremy S]

Godspeed and blue skies John Young!

John was one of the astronauts that were in the Ron Howard film "In the Shadow of the Moon". If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9d9-pHZzIE

[Dave Hadfield]

Chris sent me this picture when he showed up at NASA in 1992. He'd been given a desk in a large room that held several other desks, and one of them was Young's. The photo is poor because the internet was fairly new then.

Chris' email expressed a feeling of wonder, that he could actually be there, with his own desk across from Young's. He had the sense of being a very small french in a very large pond. Sharing space with a giant.

What's remarkable about Young is that he was ruthlessly focused on safety (except maybe that time with the corned beef sandwich). After a mission, when everybody was in a euphoric glow, he would lead the de-brief, and relentlessly seek out what DIDN'T work. He punctured a lot of balloons. Management didn't really like him, although he was useful enough in that category -- with the stature -- to last until he was 70.

That sort of thing is not fun. It's always negative, even if the goal is overwhelmingly positive. He took it upon himself to do a thankless task. He was needed, and he responded.

Godspeed.

Dave

[Dave Hadfield]

And on a far less reverent note, when I typed in "french" in the above post, some editing software assumed I was maligning the Gallic race, and changed it to "French".

And right now, when I type that word without a capital letter, it automatically capitalizes it.

Hand-holding nonsense.

"ffrog"

[Dave Hadfield]

John Young would have been annoyed, and written a memo.

[APG85]

From what I've read, he basically sacrificed his flight career (he was up for a 7th space mission...the Hubble deployment flight) by blasting NASA management post-Challenger. Took a lot of guts...

[Dave Hadfield]

Yes,

And anyone who thinks a guy like that faked a moon landing, is nuts.

Deliberately, willfully, intentionally ignorant.

[Pogo]

He was one man I admired above most any other, even among the astronauts.

Ad astra John Young.

[Nathan]

He was one of the greats!

RIP John Young!