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The achievements of John Young and Bob Crippen during STS-1 are indeed remarkable
by interludead 2y ago
The achievements of John Young and Bob Crippen during STS-1 are indeed remarkable
- euroderf 2y agoJohn Young was (and remains ?) the only astronaut to fly every class of US manned space vehicle.
- pcardoso 2y agoSome of them twice!
- EncomLab 2y agoJohn Young was not one of the Mercury seven - so "almost" every one.
- bell-cot 2y agoYoung was only active as an astronaut from 1965 to 1983, so "every one available at the time" might be a better description.
- echoangle 2y agoEven more pedantic but I think it has to be “every one ever available up to that time”. Otherwise, everyone flying in dragon would have had the same claim until SLS launched, because for some time, dragon was the only active US crew launcher. Young’s achievement was having flown every crew launcher that the US ever made, right?
- bell-cot 2y agoAs user EncomLab noted earlier, Young never flew on the US's Mercury launcher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury#Crewed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury#Crewed Maybe describe Young as having been to space on 3 successive generations of US space vehicles?
- sillywalk 2y agoThere's a good book on that flight - Into the black by Rowland White. Especially on how the National Reconnaisance Office - NRO used a spy-satellite to image the orbiter for damage to its heat tiles. The paperback has more details. Apparently this was set up in advance. Here's an article about it by the same author: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/spysat-and-shuttle-180962872/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/spysat-and...