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Who was John Young?

Answer 1

John Watts Young was an American 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.

Answer 2

John W. Young, in full John Watts Young, (born September 24, 1930, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died January 5, 2018, Houston, Texas), U.S. astronaut who participated in the Gemini, Apollo, and space shuttleprograms. He was the first astronaut to make five—and later the first to make six—spaceflights. He served as Virgil I. Grissom’s copilot on Gemini 3 (1965), the first U.S. two-man spaceflight.

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