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Laurence Retman Young
American astronaut (1935-2021) · United States · Astronauts · Died at 85
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Something wrong?Laurence Retman Young was an American aerospace engineer and backup NASA astronaut. He spent his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he joined the faculty in 1962 and in 1995 became the first Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics.
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Laurence Retman Young was an American aerospace engineer and backup NASA astronaut. He spent his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he joined the faculty in 1962 and in 1995 became the first Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics. He conducted early research in bioastronautics, the study of the effects of spaceflight on the human body, co-founded MIT's Man-Vehicle Laboratory in 1962 and was the founding director of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute in 1997.
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