Who is the person who flies the most?

John Young is a famous commander of the first flight of the American space shuttle and the oldest astronaut in the United States. However, his space career is little known. During this career, he dedicated his youth to the space cause.

1985 On March 23rd, at the 20th anniversary celebration of john young's first space flight, people realized that he had a 20-year space career.

John young was born in San Francisco, California on September 34, 1930, and spent his childhood in Orlando. His first space flight was on1March 23rd, 965. He and his companion Virgil Grissom piloted Gemini 3. This second-generation spacecraft is similar in appearance to the first-generation Mercury spacecraft. It consists of three parts: crew room, power room and machinery room. It weighs 3.2 tons and is about 5.7 meters long. Conical, with a bottom diameter of about 3 meters and a top. John young and his partner set a record for American space travel in this spaceship, flying around the earth three times for ***4 hours and 53 minutes, and became news figures at that time, appearing on newspapers, radio stations and TV stations. Later, john young has been active in the space field of the United States. 1July, 966,1June, 8, he and Collins flew the Gemini 10 spacecraft around the earth for 43 times, accounting for 70 hours and 47 minutes, successfully docked with the Akina satellite and retrieved a batch of meteoroids from the satellite. He once again became a news person in American newspapers.

The most memorable thing is that John yangjin made two world-famous "Apollo" flights. The first time was1May 969 18. John young and two other astronauts took off from Kennedy Space Center on Apollo 10. After flying for 75 hours and 56 minutes, they entered the moon-orbiting point of near moon point 1 1 km and apogee point 3 15 km. During the 6 1.6-hour flight around the moon, the commanders Stafford and Cernan entered the lunar module, separated from the mother ship, lit the descending rocket, and flew to the place only 14.3 kilometers away from the moon by the lunar module. They conducted close aerial reconnaissance for Apollo 1 1 spacecraft landing on the moon and took photos of the landing position. 1969 On May 26th, Apollo 10 landed safely near Samoa, with a total flight time of 192 hours and 3 minutes. The second time was April 6, 1972. Apollo 16 took off from Kennedy Space Center, with john young as the spacecraft commander, Mattingly as the command module pilot and Duke as the lunar module pilot. During this flight, they drove the lunar module to the moon near Descartes Crater, the central highland of the moon, and used a lunar rover worth 8 million dollars three times. Explore the lunar surface for 20 hours 15 minutes, stay on the lunar surface for 7 1 hour for 3 minutes, and bring back 95.5 kilograms of lunar rocks. It has made great contributions to human landing on the moon and exploring the mystery of the moon.

Nine years later, john young, who reached the age of assistant, was honored to be appointed as the first flight commander of the American space shuttle Columbia. On April 198 12, Robert Crippen flew the space shuttle around the world from the Kennedy Space Center. People are rejoicing in this historic achievement. Congratulatory messages from various countries poured in, and various newspapers rushed to report them. John young and the space shuttle are world-famous and recorded in the history of manned space flight. 1983165438+1On October 28th, six astronauts, including john young, Parker and German expert Mobold, went into space by space shuttle. John young and his partner Qi Xin worked together to release the European Sky Laboratory, which weighed 17 tons for the first time, conducted space experiments, made alloys that could not be made on earth, took high-resolution photos of the earth's resources, set a record for the space shuttle to fly 10 day and 8 hours, and completed the space shuttle's flight and experimental tasks very well, which was once again criticized by people. Being an astronaut is not a variety of pleasant and relaxing things, and it must go through various routine and special long-term training in physical strength, intelligence, flight physiology and basic theory. In order to fly the space shuttle, john young and Robert Crippen received comprehensive training from June 1978 to June 1 day. In addition to taking 25 hours of aviation and astronomy courses every week, they are also familiar with the 2 1 volume space shuttle operation manual, which is often revised, so that the mimeographed speeches accumulated in his office are 2.5 feet thick. In order to experience the flying experience of a jumbo plane, john young has 12000 hours of flying experience, but he still spends a lot of time flying a Boeing 707, taking a Mexican plane equipped with a thrust reverser and a lateral pressure generator, and practicing a difficult landing process. In order to learn all kinds of switches and five electronic computers on the space shuttle, he and Clifton practiced 1200 hours in the space shuttle simulation cabin, and even became fascinated.

John young's stepping on the threshold of the space industry is related to his marriage with the aviation industry. He likes to play with model planes since he was a child, and he is the defender of Orlando Middle School football team. After graduating from high school, he entered Georgia Institute of Technology, graduated from 1952, and obtained a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering with honors. /kloc-0 entered the us navy in June, 1952, and immediately applied to study in flight school. But it dragged on for more than a year. 103 squadron was assigned to naval air base in June, 1955, and has been a test pilot in a naval air station or center since then. During this period, he set two flight records. One was at the Naval Air Station in Brunswick, Maine, on March 3 1962, setting a world record of 34.523 seconds and rising 3000 meters. One time was1April, 962, and he set a world record of 7620 meters rising in 230. 14 seconds at Mag Naval Air Station. Because of this glorious aviation experience, in April 1962, when NASA openly recruited Gemini and Apollo astronauts, it was selected. At that time, the selection conditions were that the height was no more than 1.83 meters, the age was under 35, and he had a degree in physics, biology or engineering and had flight experience as a jet test pilot. At that time, john young was only 32 years old, with a height of 1.75 meters and a shoulder width of 50 cm. One of 63 people selected from 200 applicants. After further inspection and screening, half of them were eliminated, leaving 32 people. Subsequently, after investigation and evaluation by the Houston Manned Flight Center, nine people were selected, including two non-military and seven military personnel. John young is one of the cleverest people. 1962 in September, john young officially entered the second space group in Houston and began a long space career. Looking back on his career, john young sighed with emotion: I didn't expect the reusable space shuttle to fly into space regularly in just 20 years. Regrettably, the United States has not made greater progress. There is no space station and no base on the moon. He hopes that one day America can do these things. This is the voice of the old American astronauts, and perhaps the wish of all mankind.