He walked on the moon in 1972, and piloted the first Space Shuttle flight in 1981. This file photo taken on May 12, 2009 shows U.S. astronaut John Watts Young who walked on the Moon on April 21 ...

Former astronaut John Young, a NASA trailblazer whose six journeys into space included a walk on the moon and commanding the first space shuttle flight, died Friday after complications from ...

Astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and was the first to fly into space six times, died Friday night at 87. In a statement, acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot said Young died ...

John Watts Young was born on Sept ... He was awarded the NASA Ambassador of Exploration in 2005, including a moon rock he assigned for display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, and ...

John Watts Young was born Sept ... the first person to walk on the moon. Mr. Young had two flights each in the Gemini (1965 and 1966), Apollo (1969 and 1972) and space shuttle (1981 and 1983 ...

He was the only moon walker to pilot a space shuttle ... it's just so damn hard to believe that we hadn't pinpointed the problem." John Watts Young was born Sept 24, 1930, in San Francisco ...

Young flew to the moon twice and landed on it once. He was part of the Apollo 10 crew that orbited the moon in May 1969 in preparation for the first landing later that year.

John Watts Young was born on Sept ... Kennedy proposed landing a man on the moon in a nationally televised address to a joint session of Congress in May 1961, Young was watching on a small ...