Apollo 10 "dress rehearsal" mission launched into orbit, to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later.

Ed Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo ... John F. Kennedy announced plans to ...

It was also his first space flight. He was accompanied by mission Commander John W. Young on the lunar surface, while Thomas K. Mattingly (command module pilot) stayed in lunar orbit. The Apollo 16 ...

20.3 x 25.4 cm. (8 x 10 in.) ...

"It's remarkable to think that the samples Apollo 16 brought back more than half a ... region in the lunar highlands, astronauts John Young and Charles Duke collected roughly 200 pounds (96 ...

A May 25 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a black and white photo of three Apollo 16 astronauts posing ... shows astronauts Charles Duke, John Young and Thomas (Ken) Mattingly ...

A key tool used in the successful Apollo ... 16 mission with a current highest bid of over $60,000. The scoop was used by NASA lunar module pilot (LMP) Charles Duke and commander John Young ...

Boston-based RR Auction has listed the moon scoop from the Apollo 16 mission with a current highest bid of over $60,000. The scoop was used by NASA lunar module pilot (LMP) Charles Duke and commander ...

A key tool used in the successful Apollo 16 mission is up for ... $2.8M The scoop was used by NASA lunar module pilot (LMP) Charles Duke and commander John Young during their 11-day trip to ...

Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983. Forty years later, NASA is preparing to send a woman to the moon for the first time.

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If you have a butt, it passes gas. Astronauts have butts—and they fart, too. One butt-owning astronaut, John Young, was no exception to this rule. But even extraordinary men cut the cheese.