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Young, John, 1930-2018

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Personal name headingYoung, John, 1930-2018
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Variant(s)Young, John W. (John Watts), 1930-2018
Young, John Watts, 1930-2018
Young, John Watts, 1930-
LocatedOrlando (Fla.)
Birth date1930-09-24
Death date2018-01-05
Place of birthSan Francisco (Calif.)
Place of deathHouston (Tex.)
AffiliationUnited States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Profession or occupationAstronauts
Found inSpace exploration: a team effort. [MP] 1972.
Westman, P. John Young, space shuttle commander, c1981 (subj.) t.p. (John Young)
NASA. Mission report, Apollo 10, 1969: p. 12 (John W. Young, Commander USN, Astronaut, born San Francisco, Cali. Sept. 1930)
Wikipedia, viewed May 7, 2012 (John Watts Young, born September 24, 1930, San Francisco, California, is a retired American astronaut, test pilot, naval officer, and aeronautical engineer who became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972)
New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 10, 2018 (in obituary published Jan. 6: John W. Young; b. John Watts Young, Sept. 24, 1930, San Francisco; grew up in Orlando, Fla.; d. Friday [Jan. 5, 2018], Houston, aged 87; walked on the moon, commanded the first space shuttle mission, and became the first person to fly in space six times)
Associated languageeng
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