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  Young, John Watts - MSN Encarta
Young commanded Gemini 10 in July 1966, with Michael Allen Collins, which rendezvoused with two different unmanned spacecraft, and flew to a record 766 km (475 mi) in altitude.
Young's second trip to the moon was as commander of Apollo 16 in April 1972, with crew members Charles Moss Duke, Jr.
Young would have commanded another flight, but was removed from the rotation after the Challenger explosion in 1986.
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 John Young
John Young was the Governor of New South Wales from 1861 to 1867.
John Young (June 12, 1802 - April 23, 1852) was an American politician.
John Watts Young (born September 24, 1930) was an astronaut who walked on the Moon on Apollo 16, April 21, 1972.
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 John Watts Young Summary
John Watts Young (born September 24, 1930) is a former NASA astronaut who walked on the Moon on Apollo 16, April 21, 1972.
Young was assigned to the backup crew on Apollo 7 and later made the second manned flight to the Moon on Apollo 10 with Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan.
Young was backup commander of Apollo 13, the troubled mission in which the moon landing was aborted because of an explosion on the service module.
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 John Watts Young - Encyclopedia.com
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.
John Good is a man possessed by a dream; the mansion, a maze of unfinished...
Heather Watts: final bow at New York City Ballet.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Young-JW.html   (1048 words)

  
 Young, John Watts (1930-)
Young was selected as an astronaut in 1962 and flew with Grissom on the first manned Gemini mission, Gemini 3, in 1965.
On Apollo 10, in 1969, Young operated the Command Module while Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan flew the separated lunar module to within 10 miles of the Moon.
Young’s fifth flight was as commander of the first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1, on April 12, 1981, a 54.5-hour flight during which he and Crippen thoroughly tested the first reusable winged spacecraft.
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 Astronaut John W. Young - Biography
John Watts Young was born September 24, 1930 in St. Luke's Hospital in San Francisco, California.
Young is noted for his sense of humor and dry wit.
Young's recreational interests as handball, running, and working "out in the full pressure suit to stay in shape." His current NASA biography lists wind surfing, bicycling, reading and gardening as his recreational interests.
www.johnwyoung.com /bio/bio.htm   (663 words)

  
 Journeys in Time: John Watts
Watts' architectural work was based on plain, straightforward adaptations of Georgian models, and there is indirect evidence that he had brought a number of architectural textbooks with him to New South Wales (or had them sent out to the colony) including: Isaac Ware The Complete Body of Architecture.
Watts lived with the Macquaries for five years and came to be regarded as one of their family.
Watts was able to arrange for seven weeks leave from his regiment and met the Macquaries in Glasgow on 2 September 1822.
www.lib.mq.edu.au /all/journeys/people/profiles/watts.html   (1217 words)

  
 John Watts Young - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Watts Young (born September 24, 1930) is a former NASA astronaut who walked on the Moon on Apollo 16, April 21, 1972.
Born in San Francisco, California and raised in Orlando, Florida, Young became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and earned a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering with highest honors from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1952.
Young worked for NASA for 42 years and announced his retirement on December 7, 2004.
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John Young was born in San Francisco, California in 1930.
Young's second flight was Gemini X. Flying along with Michael Collins, they docked with one newly-launched Agena Target Vehicle, and rendezvoused with another one that had been up in orbit since Gemini VIII.
In November, 1983, Young was the commander of his sixth and last spaceflight, in which the European-built Spacelab was used in space for the first time.
www.wilhelm-aerospace.org /Space/Astronautics/Young.html   (538 words)

  
 John W. Young Encyclopedia Article @ NasaHQ.com (Nasa HQ)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Virgil Grissom, Young scored another space "first" by smuggling a corned beef sandwich onto the spacecraft - a feat for which he was reprimanded.
Young was assigned to the backup crew on
Apollo 13, the troubled mission in which the moon landing was aborted because of an explosion on the service module.
www.nasahq.com /encyclopedia/John_W._Young   (944 words)

  
 John Watts biography — Aria Music
Founder and Director of the Composers Cooperative Society in 1964, and later, the Composers and Choreographers Theater, JOHN WATTS (1929-82) was a member of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in New York City from 1969 until 1982.
Watts was born in Maryville, Tennessee, and began studying music (clarinet) in his early teens.
Watts was introduced to the Moog synthesizer while working with composer Gershon Kingsley at his mid-town studio in the late 1960s.
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 Genealogy and History of the Watts family of Southern Ohio
John Watts with the aid of his daughter Cathern managed for two years, by the hardest; Amos and Samual, both strapping lads, needed a mothers care and guidance while the over-worked Cathern needed a chance to attend school, if only she could be spared.
John Watts junior returned to the caravan in the Spring and he and Samuel together with their parants, went on to Iowa where they stopped to work through the crop season, for their horses were jaded and the work was good.
Only John Watts, his wife, and John junior his first-born arrived in the California gold fields, struck gold and spent several years: And there John junior married and he and his several sons and daughters and their offspring live to this present time.
users.ntplx.net /~rkwatts/genealogy/docs/watts/flossiewatts.htm   (3094 words)

  
 Apollo 16 Lunar Surface Journal : Crew
John was selected as a member of the second group of pilot-astronauts in 1962, and was the first of the group to be assigned a mission.
John retired from NASA on 31 December 2004 after serving eight years as Associate Director (Technical), responsible for technical, operational and safety oversight of all Agency Programs and activities assigned to the Johnson Space Center.
Charlie served as CapCom during the Apollo 11 landing and as Lunar Module Pilot with Young on the backup crews for Apollo 13 and 17 and on the Apollo 16 prime crew.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/alsj/a16/a16.crew.html   (1101 words)

  
 Descendants of Trader/Interpreter John Watts
John Watts was first hired by Christian Quest, grandfather of Sequoia, to work for the Virginia Land Company.
From the book, “John Stuart and the Southern Colonial Frontier”, by John Richard Alden, we find that in 1757, John Watts was a supervisor of parties of Cherokees and Catawabas coming into Virginia, along with Richard Smith and Thomas Rutherford, all of whom were given the titles of “Conductors and Guides”.
Watts Beaumont, Texas My Dear Wife: This has been a very busy Sabbath to me. I preached this morning and have put in a greater part of the day visiting the sick in the Hospital and seeing the men in their quarters.
www.angelfire.com /home/spiritofthedove/ginnyswattsinfo.html   (5501 words)

  
 Timeline
John is also shown as "brother of Samuel B. in Alabama." Samuel BROWN is shown as “brother of John B.” and is listed as “Trader, Choctaw Nation.” He went to Georgia and then to Alabama before 1765.
John BROWN was a packhorseman on the payroll of the Savannah factory of Fort Moore.
John VANN was trading exclusively with the Cherokee and ran an establishment near Ninety-Six Creek including the "unsavory characters" of three negros, a mulatto and a half-breed Indian.
www.sheilagibson.org /resrchtimeline.html   (20202 words)

  
 John Watts Young — Infoplease.com
Playing through: Ronnie and Edwin Watts have positioned their golf retail business to go for the green after several years in the......
RESPONSE TO SHELDON WATTS, "YELLOW FEVER IMMUNITIES IN WEST AFRICA AND THE AMERICAS IN THE AGE OF SLAVERY AND BEYOND: A REAPPRAISAL".(in......
Watt's next: six-million-dollar woman Naomi Watts makes up for lost time with '21 Grams,' an Oscar nom and a 'King'-sized project.
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 John Young
John Young's superb range of low cost signed limited editions of the RMS Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Elizabeth I are available direct form Cranston Fine arts.
RMS Queen Mary (1906) The Voyage Ahead by John Young In 1936 the Queen Mary, on her sixth voyage out, won the Blue Riband of the Atlantic from the French Line's Normandie by making the run from Bishop's Rock to Ambrose Lighthouse in 4 days, 27 minutes at a speed of 30.14 knots.
RMS Queen Elizabeth (1938) mid Atlantic by John Young The Queen Elizabeth was the largest ship in the world.
www.militaryartcompany.com /john_young1.htm   (1211 words)

  
 Watts' On-line
I think John Watts was born in VA. I think Joseph Watts lived with the Cherokee Indians as a member of the tribe in Raburn County, GA. James Watts did not live with the Cheorkees as a member of the tribe.
Watts was elected the first president of the Commonwealth Club of Durham, which made possible the transportation facilities required to make that city a prosperous and commercial center.
Watts Hospital's relocation to its new site on Broad Street represents an architectural and medical benchmark in the transition of American hospitals from places where the sick were taken to die to places where patients' health was restored.
www.wattsline.org /gen/watts/newsletter19.htm   (3867 words)

  
 September 24 - Today in Science History   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Young worked for NASA for 42 years and retired on 31 Dec 2004 at the age of 74.«
John R(ay) Dunning was an American nuclear physicist whose experiments in nuclear fission helped lay the groundwork for the development of the atomic bomb.
John R. Dunning led the research team at Columbia University which studied the gaseous diffusion method for uranium separation.
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 John Watts Ltd - Figure Skates - Classic
For added appeal it features a drop tail and will be supplied with the John Watts logo embroidered on to the left chest and your name together with the web address of John Watts Skates on the back.
This stylish shirt will be supplied with the John Watts logo embroidered on to the left chest and your name together with the web address of John Watts Skates on the back.
It will be supplied with the John Watts logo embroidered on to the left chest and your name together with the web address of John Watts Skates on the back.
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 Space Cowboy Saloon
John Young is about to make his fifth flight, breaking his tie with Jim Lovell, Tom Stafford, and Pete Conrad for the most flights.
After all of the checks and tests are done, John and Bob hold a live TV press conference-during which John reports, "The vehicle is performing like a champ!" Coming from a veteran like John Watts Young, that means something.
As she dives earthword with John Young on the stick and Bob Crippen calling out the vital numbers, T-38 chase planes track the Shuttle down and rendezvous with it.
groups.msn.com /SpaceCowboySaloon/theearlyshuttlemissionssts1.msnw   (1086 words)

  
 John Harmon & Louisa Watts
John Harmon married Louisa Watts, daughter of Capt. James Watts & Martha (Patsy) Young on 29 Nov 1846 in Madison Co., MO.
In the obituary of her mother, Martha Young Watts, it states that she had 2 daughters living at the time of her death.
Louisa Watts was born about 1815 in MO. Her mother died 16 Sept 1873 in MO.
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 John Young aviation artist
John Young, a founder member of the current chairman of the Guild of aviation artists.
Low Flying Mosquito by John Young Flying over the flat lands of Holland, the amazing Mosquito just catches the sunlight re-emerging from the clouds after the heavy shower, the sky brightened further with an as yet incomplete rainbow.
D-Day, A New Dawn for Europe by John Young The ever-popular and ubiquitous Spitfire is shown landing somewhere in Europe, bearing its invasion strips on the fuselage and wings.
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He was the first person to fly into space six times, twice journeyed to the Moon, and as of 2004, is the only astronaut to have piloted four different classes of spacecraft that includes:
Young was the first of Astronaut Group 2 to be selected for a flight and also scored a space 'first' by smuggling a corned beef sandwich onto the spacecraft for which he was reprimanded.
Young worked for NASA for 42 years, remaining on the active astronaut roster for the entire time.
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 US Commemorative Cover John W. Young with Information Card   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Considered to be one of America's most experienced space travelers, astronaut John Watts Young has made six different NASA flights.
Young's first space mission, Gemini 3, was made with veteran astronaut Gus Grissom on March 23, 1965.
In May 1969, as command module pilot for Apollo 10, Young orbited in Charlie Brown while his fellow crewmen took the lunar module Snoopy to within 10 miles of the Moon -- a mission that served as a dress rehearsal for the first actual lunar landing in July.
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 watts - OneLook Dictionary Search
Watts : Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
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 Space Age Publishing Company -- Lunar Enterprise Daily   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Young will likely state a similar case this year at the Space Frontier Foundation’s Return to the Moon 5 Conference – “This Time We Stay” from 16-18 July in Las Vegas NV.
Young also said that there is one chance in 455 that the human species will be wiped out in 100 years due to a giant natural catastrophe such as a super volcano or earthquake.
Therefore, concluded Young, “Our future depends on using the Moon for science and industry, and our work to get there is absolutely essential.” John Watts Young is currently Associate Director of Johnson Space Center in Houston TX and an active astronaut.
www.spaceagepub.com /subscribers/LDarchive/LD20040610.html   (1206 words)

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