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John Young (astronaut) - Wikipedia
John Young (astronaut) - Wikipedia Young enjoyed the longest career of any astronaut, becoming the first person to fly six space missions (with seven launches, counting his lunar liftoff) over the course of 42 years of active NASA service.[1] He is the only person to have piloted, and been commander of, four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command/Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle.[2]
Failure Was Not An Option: NASA's Apollo 13 Mission of Survival in Pictures
Two crewmembers of NASA's third lunar landing mission practice using tools from the Apollo Lunar Hand Tools and a gnomon. Astronauts James A. Lovell Jr. (left) commander, and Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot carrying cameras and communications equipment during the simulation.