An astronaut who should be more famous - John Young.

[Rain Man]

I'm generally familiar with the Mercury Seven, and I've heard of John Young, but wow. Check out this resume.

Named in the second group of NASA astronauts alongside guys like Neil Armstrong and Jim Lovell.

Longest astronaut career at 42 years.

Flew and commanded Gemini, Apollo, Apollo lander, and space shuttle craft.

First space flight of the Gemini series (part of two-man crew).

First person to do a solo around the moon (Apollo 10).

One of only three people who has gone to the moon twice (once landing, once orbiting).

Ninth guy to walk on the moon (and drove a lunar rover, which is really cool).

First person to fly the space shuttle (Columbia initial launch).

Fastest speed ever attained by a human (with the rest of his crew - Apollo 10, just shy of 25,000 mph).

Logged 835 hours of spacecraft time.

First person to fly six space missions.


That's a heckuva resume.

[srvy]

He was also the only astronaut to take a sandwich with him to space corned beef on rye. Pissed off congress who he was supposed to be evaluating the freeze-dried foods that they allocated a lot of money for. Makes me like him even more.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/article...ich-nasa-space

[saphojunkie]

so he's had the most lies told about him to the public big whup

[SuperBowl4]

youtu.be/kJxJmN_e1LQI just watched SECRETS OF THE SHINING: STANLEY KUBRICK VESES THE FAKE MOON LANDING on YouTube - Super interesting - Love that movie!

[Rasputin]

Fastest speed ever attained by a human (with the rest of his crew - Apollo 10, just shy of 25,000 mph).

[UK_Chief]

Originally Posted by D2112

He flew on the Saturn 5 twice. The most powerful machine ever built by man. 363 ft tall and over 7 million pounds fully loaded.

He was a big dude then