Veteran U.S. astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and even smuggled a corned beef sandwich into orbit during one of his six missions in space, has died at age 87, NASA said on Saturday.
Young, a former U.S. Navy test pilot, in 1972 became the ninth of 12 people ever to set foot on the moon.
"We're saddened by the loss of astronaut John Young," the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement on Twitter.
The time and cause of Young's death was not immediately clear.
Young became one of the most accomplished astronauts in the history of the U.S. space program. He flew into space twice during NASA's Gemini program in the mid-1960s, twice on the Apollo lunar missions and twice on space shuttles in the 1980s.
He retired in 2004 after 42 years with the U.S. space agency.
Source : NDTV
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