John Young

It was only logical that he would command the first manned Gemini mission.

The other crew member was John Young, one of NASA's New Nine.

On March the 23rd, 1965, Grissom and Young boarded their spacecraft.

It would be the last crewed mission to be controlled from the Cape Kennedy Air Force Station.

Michael Collins, who was to make two spacewalks on Gemini 10, had been training in a vacuum chamber that gave him a feel for working inside his spacesuit when it was swollen, as it would be in space.

The ponderous training on a cushion of air remained the best that they could think of for extended spacewalk simulation.

After the familiar dual launch of the Agena and the Titan II, John Young and Michael Collins caught up with the target vehicle on the fourth orbit.

But a misalignment of the Gemini 10 craft during one maneuver required orbital corrections that burned large amounts of fuel.

But like many people of his generation, he lived through a time when technology advanced so quickly that when he was born, most homes didn't even have a phone, and by 2026, was talking to me remotely from his computer.

Along with his crewmates John Young and Kid Mattingly, Charlie set off for the moon on April 16th, 1972, in what turned out to be a crucial mission for NASA that provided tons and tons of geological data.

And for Charlie, it was the adventure of a lifetime.

They returned back to Earth 11 days later, having survived a handful of technical glitches and all the other perils of space travel.

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They landed there specifically because NASA believed that it was formed from a volcanic explosion.

But what Charlie and John Young discovered, while Kid Mattingly was orbiting above, was that the region wasn't an ancient volcano at all.

It formed when asteroids hit other parts of the moon and scattered rock and debris everywhere.

But when they put on their spacesuits and climbed up in our simulators out at the Marshall Space Flight Center, it was all business.

John Young was my favorite.

So I got to tell you about John.

When John was eight years old, there was a knock at the door and they took his mother away.

So when we were all ready to go home after an eight, ten-hour day, John's ready to go another six hours.

And his dedication just was immense.

And so, you know, when I look at somebody like that, and I was in flight readiness reviews where I'm up presenting and John Young asks a question, and either you don't know the answer or you've got the answer and you tell him.

But if you don't know the answer, don't give him something that's not right.

If they couldn't come up with a solution while Cernan and Schmidt slept, the next day's exploration would be severely inhibited, limiting the astronauts to within walking distance of the lunar module.

Apollo 16 Commander John Young was on the case.

John Young spent the night working in a space suit back at Houston, working out a procedure to fix it.

And they worked out that they would use an old map that they'd already been using, they didn't need again.

They taped it into a curve and then found two little clamps which they could use to clamp it to the dust guard.

yeah and then like I mean you can already I mean AIs can already make music pretty well and even emulate the styles of well-known musicians and

So what I want to do is I want to go into inspirations and I want to start off with astronaut John Young.

Why do you like him so much?

He passed away not too long ago.

And Usually during the launch phase, their heart rates go like up into the 140s, you know, because you're on a rocket that's launching off of the Earth and you're leaving and you're going to go to the moon.

That's exciting.

John Young's pulse never got above 70.

So he's just like, I'm on a rocket.

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John Young.

John Young.

Oh, it was a must-have just because it tasted like crap.

But, you know, oh, my God, the astronauts had it.

And

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Living in Florida when all that happened, our governor had to call big press conferences because John Young had called it orange juice.

yeah.

John Young talked about that.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.