{"id":76992,"date":"2018-01-07T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76992"},"modified":"2018-01-07T08:38:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T13:38:51","slug":"john-young-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76992","title":{"rendered":"John Young passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76993\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76993\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/John-Young-308x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/John-Young-308x333.jpg 308w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/John-Young-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/John-Young.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bobo sends the sad news that astronaut John Young has passed at the age of 87. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/39307-astronaut-john-young-moonwalker-shuttle-commander-obituary.html\">Space.com<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Young, NASA&#8217;s longest-serving astronaut, who walked on the moon and flew on the first Gemini and space shuttle missions, has died.<\/p>\n<p>The first person to fly six times into space \u2014 seven, if you count his launch off of the moon in 1972 \u2014 and the only astronaut to command four different types of spacecraft, Young died on Friday (Jan. 5) following complications from pneumonia.. He was 87.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Young was a Navy officer, commissioned through Navy ROTC at Georgia Tech, and he began his career during the Korean War as a fire control officer on USS Laws. After the war, he became a helicopter pilot and then he became a fighter pilot flying Grumman F-9 Cougars from USS Coral Sea and Vought F-8 Crusaders from USS Forrestal before entering the United States Naval Test Pilot School which led him to the space program. He retired from the Navy in 1976 as a Captain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends the sad news that astronaut John Young has passed at the age of 87. &hellip; <a title=\"John Young passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76992\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Young passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}