Posted on 01/06/2018 10:51:31 AM PST by BulletBobCo
(Reuters) - Veteran U.S. astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and even smuggled a corned beef sandwich into orbit during one of his six missions in space, has died at age 87, NASA said on Saturday.
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I remember him. He and Gus Grissom were on Gemimi 3 and orbited the earth. Recall that the Gemini spacecraft were the successors to the Mercury modules.
RIP
[a corned beef sandwich]
I hope he had some Thousand Island packets or at least mustard packets.
Truly some great days in the U.S.A.
(I keep forgetting ‘American Exceptionalism’ is a myth per his highness BHO.)
R.I.P. Only 5 lunar walkers left out of the 12.
I guess it’s inevitable that the space pioneers of the 60s and 70s are leaving us. Sad to see, nonetheless.
Gemini 3 with Gus Grissom - March 1965
Gemini 10 with Michael Collins - July 1966
Apollo 10 with Thomas Stafford & Eugene Cernan - May 1969
Apollo 16 with Charles Duke & Ken Mattingly - April 1972
Space Shuttle STS-1 with Robert Crippen - April 1981
Space Shuttle STS-9 with Brewster Shaw Jr, Owen Garriot, Robert Parker, Ulf Merbold (ESA) & Byron Lichtenberg - Nov-Dec 1983
42 years at NASA, retiring in 2004!
Gemini 3, 1965
Apollo 10, May, 1969
Apollo 16, April, 1972, 9th person to step foot on the moon.
Commander of STS-1, maiden flight of Columbia
Slated to fly in 1986, cancelled after Challenger explosion.
Young never flew again.
Ad Astra, John Young
Pretty sure they got corned beef in Heaven.
God’s speed!
ok, yours is better
Failed to add and I sincerely mean it; Fare thee well and may you be with God as we speak of this!
Had the privilege of meeting him and Robert Crippen in 1980 while working at Edwards. Nice guy.
It is not a competition but research, research & research! (smile)
RIP, job well done sir!
Adding Lunar Module as separate craft;
Gemini 3 with Gus Grissom - March 1965
Gemini 10 with Michael Collins - July 1966
Apollo 10 with Thomas Stafford & Eugene Cernan - May 1969
Apollo 16 with Charles Duke & Ken Mattingly - April 1972
==> Lunar Module Orion with Charles Duke
Space Shuttle STS-1 with Robert Crippen - April 1981
Space Shuttle STS-9 with Brewster Shaw Jr, Owen Garriot, Robert Parker, Ulf Merbold (ESA) & Byron Lichtenberg - Nov-Dec 1983
42 years at NASA, retiring in 2004!
R.I.P. and be with God!
RIP
Rip master astronaut
That would be a true Mars Bar!
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