Established 1961 23 Health Monday, January 8, 2018 John Young, who set records in space with NASA, is dead at 87 ‘NASA and the world have lost a pioneer’

WASHINGTON: John Young, a legendary US astronaut who went into space six times, orbited the moon and then walked on its craggy surface, has died, NASA announced Saturday. He was 87 ‘Hottest’ Ashes Test day on and died late Friday of complications from pneu- monia, the space agency said. He lived in a record as Australia swelters Houston suburb just minutes from the NASA Space Center. SYDNEY: Sydney sweltered through one mometers recorded temperatures over 40 “NASA and the world have lost a pioneer,” of its hottest days on record yesterday as degrees Celsius. The heat took its toll on agency administrator Robert Lightfoot said in a temperatures soared in southern Australia French star Kristina Mladenovic, who statement. “We will stand on his shoulders as we and authorities imposed a fire ban in a siz- retired midway through her match citing look toward the next human frontier.” Young was a zling start to summer. Australia’s largest heat stress. “43 degrees but probably 50 on man of many firsts: the only astronaut to fly in the city recorded its hottest day since 1939 as court when started. I’m sorry to the fans. I Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programs (and the mercury rose to 47.3 degree Celsius think it’s 1st time in my career I retired a the first to command a shuttle flight); and the first in the western suburb of Penrith. More match..it says it all,” the world number 11 to fly into space six times. He once held the world than 200 weather records were broken tweeted. record for total time spent in space, NASA said. nationwide during the last summer, with Australian and English cricketers slog- intense heat waves, bushfires and flooding ging through the final Ashes match in Boldest flight in history plaguing the December 2016-February Sydney may have also experienced the Young joined Gus Grissom on the Gemini 3 2017 season. hottest day on record for a Test match in mission, then commanded the first space shuttle Top tennis players were called off the Australia. The hottest Test day on record mission in what some people called “the boldest FLORIDA: This file photo shows US Astronauts Robert Crippen, left, and John Young, courts yesterday at the Sydney appeared to be 43.1 degree Celsius in test flight in history.” He commanded Gemini 10, right, in the flight deck of Columbia of the space shuttle Columbia before the first International, a warm-up tournament for Adelaide in 1908, the Bureau of the first mission to rendezvous with two other shuttle flight at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. — AFP the Australian Open Grand Slam, after ther- Meteorology told the Sydney Morning spacecraft during a single flight. Young orbited the moon in Apollo 10, and made a lunar landing with Apollo 16. “In an iconic display of test pilot ‘cool,’ he landed the space shuttle (STS-9) with a fire in sense of population levels and find ways to boost the back end,” NASA said. ‘World’s ugliest conservation of a “highly threatened species”. “It “He was in every way the ‘astronaut’s astro- was even feared that many, if not all, populations naut,’” Lightfoot said. But he was also described as had become extinct until their existence was con- a savvy engineer and a “test pilot’s test pilot.” pig’ spotted firmed by the zoo’s cameras,” the zoo said as it While in the navy, Young set world records for the released the images. — AFP fastest ascension from a standing start in an F-4 in Indonesia Phantom II jet. Once, during an air-to-air missile test, Young and another pilot approached each oth- JAKARTA: Rare images of the “world’s ugliest er’s aircraft at a potentially calamitous speed of pig” have been captured in Indonesia, researchers Mach 3 (2,300 miles per hour, or 3,700 kilometers said Friday, offering a window into a little-known per hour), according to Young’s website. species believed to be on the brink of extinction. “I got a telegram from the chief of naval The number of endangered Javan warty pigs- operations,” Young said in his understated way, males are distinguished by large warts on their “asking me not to do this anymore.” Fellow faces-has plunged since the early 1980s due to astronaut Charles Bolden called Young and hunting and forest habitat loss, according to the Robert “Hoot” Gibson the two best pilots he had UK-based Chester Zoo. SYDNEY: A sun burnt English fan looks to the sun while watching cricket on ever known. “Never met two people like them,” British and Indonesian researchers laid camera INDONESIA: This handout image from the the fourth day of the fifth Ashes cricket Test match between Australia and he said. “Everyone else gets into an airplane; traps in the forests of the Southeast Asian nation’s Chester Zoo shows an endangered Javan warty England at the SCG in Sydney. — AFP John and Hoot wear their airplane. They’re just Java island in the hopes of capturing images of the pig on Indonesia’s Java island. — AFP awesome.”— AFP elusive creature. Their goal was to get a clearer