Space Station-Bound Cargo Ship Named for Moonwalker John Young

Space Station-Bound Cargo Ship Named for Moonwalker John Young

Space Station-Bound Cargo Ship Named for Moonwalker John Young







		The first NASA astronaut to fly six times into space (seven, if you count your moon launch) and command four different types of spacecraft will add one more vehicle to your credit, even if it is only in name.

		John Young, who walked the moon on Apollo 16 and directed the inaugural flight of the space shuttle program, has been chosen as a posthumous namesake for the next Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft to replenish the International Space Station. Young man died in January At the age of 87 years.

		"We are pleased to announce that the Cygnus spaceship For our tenth cargo refueling mission to the International Space Station, it is named in honor of John Young, naval officer, test pilot and astronaut of NASA, "read a statement published on Wednesday (October 24) by Northrop Grumman in Twitter

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		SS John Young is scheduled to be launched on an Antares 230 rocket from Northrop Grumman from Pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Space Center (MARS) at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, not before November 15. and recharged with waste by the crew of the space station before being released from the outpost in orbit to deploy three Cubesats and then perform a destructive re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.



	John Young, namesake of the spacecraft, was a member of the second group of NASA astronauts selected in 1962. He Served as a pilot in Gemini 3, the first mission for the two-seat spacecraft in 1965, and then commanded Gemini 10 in 1966. On his third mission, Young became the first person to orbit the moon alone as a pilot of the command module at Apollo 10 in 1969.

		Young became the ninth person to walk on the moon as commander of Apollo 16 in 1972. Nine years later, he led STS-1, the first flight of the space shuttle Columbia. His final mission was as commander of STS-9, also aboard Columbia, with the first Spacelab of European construction module.

		In total, Young recorded 34 days, 19 hours and 39 minutes in space. He is the only astronaut who has flown in the missions of Gemini, Apollo and the space shuttle.





						


Logo of the mission of Northrop Grumman for the flight of its tenth spacecraft Cygnus, the S.S. John Young

            						    Credit: Northrop Grumman 


		The S. John Young will be the first Cygnus spacecraft to launch since Northrop Grumman acquired Orbital ATK in June. The tradition of naming cargo vehicles began with the predecessor of Orbital ATK, Orbital Sciences. The most recent Cygnus, which was docked at the space station from May to July, was baptized the S.S. J.R. Thompson After the president and the director of operations of that company.

		Other ships were named after the deceased astronauts David Low, Gordon Fullerton, Janice Voss, Deke Slayton, Rick Husband, Alan Poindexter, John Glenn Y Gene Cernan.

		The NG-10 mission of S.S. John Young is an extension of the Northrop Grumman contract under NASA's Commercial Replenishment Services (CRS) program. The flight will deliver 7,605 pounds (3,450 kilograms) of supplies to the space station.

		The CRS contract authorizes Northrop Grumman to fly 11 Cygnus missions with a total of approximately 66,000 pounds (30,000 kg) of logistics, crew supplies and research equipment to the space station. The first mission of Cygnus CRS was completed in 2014. Under a follow-up contract, Northrop Grumman will provide at least six other refueling missions that transport an additional 44,000 pounds (20,000 kg) of cargo to the orbiting laboratory.

		In addition to Cygnus, Young is also the namesake of a section of Florida State Road 423, which was named John Young Parkway in his honor. The control facility that NASA will use to launch its next generation Space Launching System (SLS) was named Young-Crippen Firing Room in 2006, in honor of Young and his team. STS-1Teammate



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