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John Young
John Young
	John Young in 2002
US Navy test pilot
	In office; 1959–1962
NASA astronaut
	In office; 1962–2004
Personal details
Born	John Watts Young; September 24, 1930; San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died	January 5, 2018 (aged 87); Houston, Texas, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Georgia Institute of Technology, B.S. 1952
Occupation	Naval Aviator, test pilot

Captain John Watts Young (September 24, 1930 – January 5, 2018) was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.^[1] Young was on the first orbital Space Shuttle mission, STS-1, in April 1981. He was the only person to have piloted, and been commander of, four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command/Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle.

Young was born in San Francisco, California. He studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. In 1956, Young married Barbara White. They divorced in 1972. They had two children.^[2] Young died of complications from pneumonia in Houston, Texas on January 5, 2018 at the age of 87.^[3]