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Biography
NASA Career
Young Assigned Acting Chief of Astronauts
Reprinted from the JSC Space Roundup - May 10, 1974
NASA Press Release 74-71, April 30, 1974
NASA Activities - June 15, 1974
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John W. Young, veteran of four manned space flights,
has been named acting chief of the astronaut Office of the JSC Flight Operations
Directorate. Former astronaut office chief Alan B. Shepard, Jr. will serve
as senior advisor to Young.
Young was in the second group of astronauts selected by
NASA in September 1962. He was pilot on the first manned Gemini mission
in 1965 and command pilot of Gemini 10 July 1966. In a lunar-orbit test
mission of the Apollo lunar module in May 1969, Young served as command
module pilot. Most recently, he was commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing
mission at the Descartes landing site. Young spent more than 20 hours on
the lunar surface in three periods of exploration.
Young, a captain in the U. S. Navy, graduated from Georgia
Institute of Technology in 1952 with a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical
engineering. He been awarded two NASA Distinguished Service Medals, two
NASA Exceptional Service Medals, the Navy Astronaut Wings, two Navy Distinguished
Service Medals, three Navy Distinguished Flying Crosses and the 1972 Iven
C. Kincheloe Award of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.
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