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John Watts Young

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Watts Young 1930-, American astronaut, b. San Francisco. Young served as pilot of Gemini 3 (Mar. 23, 1965), command pilot of Gemini 10 (July 18-21, 1966), command-module pilot of the Apollo 10 lunar-orbit mission (May 18-26, 1969), and commander of the Apollo 16 lunar-landing mission (Apr. 16-27, 1972), during which he became the ninth person to walk on the moon. When he commanded the first orbital test flight of the space shuttle Columbia (Apr. 12-14, 1981), he set a record for the greatest number of orbital spaceflights (five) by an individual. He then went on to b... Read more
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
...his Three Steps to Victory (1957) and The Pulse of Radar: The Autobiography of Sir Robert Watson-Watt (1959). A biography is John Rowland, The Radar Man: The Story of Sir Robert Watson-Watt (1963). Briefer accounts appear in Egon Larsen, Men Who Changed the... Read more
Boulting, Roy and John
...McGill University, Toronto. Career: John entered film industry as office boy...and editor, mid-1930s; introduced by John, Roy began as assistant director; they founded Charter Films, 1937; John served in Film Unit of Royal Air Force...board of British Lion Film Corp. Died: John died in ... Read more

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