-NASA astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, has died on January 5 at 87.
-Young was the only NASA astronaut to go into space as part of the four categories spacecraft; Gemini, Apollo Command, Apollo Lunar and space shuttle programs.
-He was first astronaut to fly into space six times, with seven space missions.
-He was the ninth man to walk on the moon.
-Counting his takeoff from the moon in 1972 as commander of Apollo 16, Young’s blastoff tally stood at seven, for decades a world record.
-Young flew twice during the two-man Gemini missions of the mid-1960s, twice to the moon during Nasa’s Apollo program, and twice more aboard the new space shuttle Columbia in the early 1980s.
-Young was categorized in Nasa’s second astronaut class, chosen in 1962, along with the likes of Neil Armstrong, Pete Conrad and James Lovell.
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