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John W. Young Infographic timeline of NASA's Apollo missions, showing key dates, mission patches, astronaut names, mission achievements, time and distance statistics, and a map of Apollo landing sites on the Moon. Includes milestones such as Apollo 11's first Moon landing, Apollo 13's survival after an explosion, and total moonwalkers and human visitors. Astronauts John W. Young (left) and Virgil I. Grissom inside their Gemini 3 spacecraft awaiting blastoff from Cape Kennedy on March 23, 1965. They successfully orbited the Earth three times in the first U.S. two-man spaceflight.
Witness the liftoff and landing of NASA's Columbia space shuttle crewed by astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen
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Edwin E. Aldrin (Buzz Aldrin) stands on the moon, Apollo 11
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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Jan 01, 2026
Anniversary information added. Sep 20, 2025
Add new Web site: Naval History and Heritage Command - John Watts Young. Mar 14, 2025
Media added. Jun 06, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 16, 2024
Add new Web site: Lunar and Planetary Institute - Biography of John Young. Oct 26, 2023
Add new Web site: Space.com - John Young: The Prolific Astronaut. Mar 21, 2022
Add new Web site: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum - John W. Young, an Astronaut�s Astronaut. Mar 21, 2022
Updated for his death. Jan 06, 2018
Add new Web site: Astronaut Scholarship Foundation - Biography of John Young. Dec 12, 2016
Add new Web site: New Mexico Museum of Space History - John W. Young. Dec 12, 2016
Added information about John Young being first to make five and six spaceflights. May 26, 2010
Video of Gemini 3 flight added. May 26, 2010
Information added on Young's career in NASA management and retirement. Oct 23, 2009
Added new Web site: Window To The Universe - Biography of John Young. May 01, 2009
Article revised and updated. Apr 10, 2009
Media added. Jan 30, 2009
Media added. Jul 18, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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