posted 01-08-2018 08:01 PM               

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Originally posted by 328KF:
Very appropriate, but what we should really hope for is a lunar base named after him.

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posted 01-08-2018 09:20 PM               

Please join us on Thursday, Jan. 11 for a remembrance ceremony honoring NASA astronaut John Young. The event will take place outside of Heroes and Legends featuring the Astronaut Hall of Fame at 12:00 noon. John Young will be honored by fellow astronauts Bob Cabana and Jon McBride.

posted 01-09-2018 10:46 AM               

After a trade study redesigned the Airlock from a single, spherical structure to two different diameter structures, the Equipment Lock and Crew Lock, a hatch needed to be designed to seal the bulkhead between the two chambers. The requirements were that it had to seal on the Equipment Lock side of the bulkhead during an EVA when there was 0 Atm. in the Crew Lock and on the Crew Lock side of the bulkhead when a hyperbaric procedure, at 6 Atm. was performed in the Crew Lock. This meant that the hatch had to pass through the opening in the bulkhead, which had never been required of any previous hatch flown in space. There were many other requirements that the hatch had to meet related to window locations and view angles, the ability to pass tools and/or medical equipment through the hatch, emergency opening time, weight, size, etc. The trade study was complex and the McDonnell Douglas team designed a hatch that would not require latches; it used a pre-load mechanism to provide the initial loading on a double set of O-rings around the perimeter of the hatch and air pressure to provide the final sealing. We choose this design for two reasons: weight savings and eliminating the possibility of a latch, or latches, binding and not allowing the hatch to open. With the Crew Lock pressurized at 6 Atm. with 100 percent oxygen during a hyperbaric procedure it was essential that the crew be able to evaucate the Crew Lock as rapidly as possible. I was a strong advocate of this design as I reminded many of the younger members of the team and NASA about the Apollo 1 fire.

Now here's the John Young part. After the meeting John Young asked me to step into his office. When I did he mentioned that he was glad we recommended a hatch design without latches. He said he advocated such a design for the Shuttle but it was not approved. I don't recall if he was referring to the Shuttle's main hatch or Airlock hatch, or both. And subsequent to this discussion there was a Shuttle mission when the planned EVA had to be cancelled because of a failure of a latch to open, preventing the astronauts from entering the Shuttle's Airlock.

posted 01-09-2018 12:06 PM               

• Member of the 1st multi-manned U.S. spacecraft crew;
  
• The first non-Mercury U.S. astronaut to fly in space;
  
• First astronaut assigned to a 2nd Gemini prime crew;
  
• First astronaut to perform rendezvous with two different target vehicles on a single mission;
  
• First human to orbit the moon solo;
  
• First human to enter lunar orbit twice;
  
• First to fly the same spacecraft twice.

posted 01-09-2018 04:20 PM               

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Originally posted by Larry McGlynn:
Tom and Gene thought that he looked like Charlie Brown.

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It had a dual connection with the "snooping" they would be doing down low over the moon, and plus fit with the Snoopy awards that are well-known employee mementos. He said that once Snoopy was settled on, Charlie Brown naturally followed.

posted 01-09-2018 06:09 PM               

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Originally posted by OV-105:
Would he have flown again after that or would that have been it with seven flights?

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posted 01-09-2018 08:04 PM               

When he left, the International Space Station was in orbit and permanently manned. Apollo lunar landing artifacts were relegated to museums. GW Bush was President.

posted 01-09-2018 08:48 PM               

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Originally posted by Colokent:
...does anyone have any insight into the funeral arrangements for Captain Young?

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posted 01-10-2018 07:00 AM               

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Originally posted by 328KF:
He said that once Snoopy was settled on, Charlie Brown naturally followed.

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Gene told me about John and Charlie many times, because I own the paintings of each character from the mission.

I talked with Tom two days ago when we talked about John. Tom met John in 1949 on a midshipman cruise about the USS Missouri.

posted 01-10-2018 02:32 PM               

I was pointing out where I got my information. I have found over the years that what people tell the public is different from their intended reasons. I wrote about that that situation after an astronaut interview in a class paper. It was long footnote posing the question of when (if ever) does the interviewer develop the trust of the interviewee.

That said, this is a thread to honor John's memory. I should have posted the link on the paintings to another thread.

posted 01-11-2018 07:05 PM               

In memory of NASA astronaut John Young, Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana placed a memorial wreath at the Heroes and Legends exhibit at the center's visitor complex. The brief ceremony took place on the afternoon of Jan. 11, 2018.

posted 05-14-2018 05:23 PM               

Five alumns of George Tech, Young's alma mater, flew the missing man formation, including astronauts Doug Wheelock and Shane Kimbrough.

Photos courtesy Roger Weiss.

posted 05-01-2019 04:08 AM               

Nice to have a closure.