John Young dead at 87. Moon astronaut and commander of first Space Shuttle flight died in Houston of pneumonia complications

American astronaut John Young, one of the men who set foot on the Moon, died at the age of 87. He flew twice to the Moon and commanded the first Space Shuttle mission (STS-1) being the longest-running astronaut.

John Watts Young was the only person to have piloted and commanded four different spacecraft classes: Gemini, Apollo’s Command and Service Module, Apollo Lunar Module and the Space Shuttle.

In 1965, Young was part of the first (manned) Gemini flight, and in 1969 he was the first person to orbit alone around the moon during the Apollo 10 mission.

He was one of the (only) three people who traveled twice to the Moon and drove a vehicle on its surface. In 1972, John Young became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission.

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He also remained famous because he took secretly a beef sandwich into space, -violating agency’s rules-, to give it to a colleague.

“Today, Nasa and the world have lost a pioneer,” the Nasa administrator, Robert Lightfoot, said in a statement cited by The Guardian. “Astronaut John Young’s storied career spanned three generations of spaceflight. John was one of that group of early space pioneers whose bravery and commitment sparked our nation’s first great achievements in space.”

The astronaut died on Friday, January 5, 2018, due to complications caused by a pneumonia.