Space Rocket History #354 – Apollo 16 – CMDR John W. Young

John Watts Young was an astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. He flew on four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command and Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle.

Young during Pre-launch for Gemini 3Young on the MoonYoung Eating on STS-9