# John Young

> John Young flew everything NASA had - Gemini, Apollo, the Shuttle - and walked on the Moon. No other astronaut touched all four spacecraft classes, and no one else who left bootprints at Descartes ever came back to command a Shuttle off the pad.

*American astronaut, naval officer, test pilot and aeronautical engineer (1930-2018)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/john-young

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1930-09-24
- **Died:** 2018-01-05
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Young came out of Georgia Tech with an engineering degree, flew Navy missions during the Korean War, then became a test pilot breaking time-to-climb records. NASA picked him in 1962. He flew the first crewed Gemini in 1965, commanded Gemini 10 a year later, then orbited the Moon alone on Apollo 10 in 1969 - the first person to do that lap solo. In 1972 he walked the Descartes Highlands for three days as commander of Apollo 16. Nine years later he took Columbia up on STS-1, the Shuttle's maiden flight, then flew again in 1983. He ran the Astronaut Office for thirteen years and stayed at NASA until 2004, closing out 42 years and a record no one else holds.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 56.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 1.6 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 24.5 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0974135/ (@nm0974135)

## Topics
#Historical Figures, #Other, #Space Exploration, #Stand Up, #United States, #Americas, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **2018** - Died
- **1994** - NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal
- **1992** - NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal
- **1983** - Patron’s Medal
- **1982** - International Space Hall of Fame
- **1981** - Hubbard Medal
- **1981** - Congressional Space Medal of Honor
- **1969** - NASA Distinguished Service Medal
- **1965** - NASA Exceptional Service Medal
- **1930** - Born

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