Space pioneer John Young passed away

On Friday, 5 January 2018, John Young, NASA's longest-serving astronaut, passed away.

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This talented man participated in many space programmes, starting in the 1960s.

So much interesting information is available about him. In the picture immediately above he was jumping and saluting the USA flag on the surface of the moon in April 1972. Read more about him here, here and here. Very nice videos are included in the original web pages. The texts of these articles are available in pdf format here, here and here.