David K. Stone (American, 1922 - 2001) "Captain John Young" Signed lower left. Original Oil painting on Masonite.

Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation.

This painting is the original painting which appeared on the Fleetwood John W. Young Commemorative Cover postmarked March 11, 1995.

Considered to be one of America's most experienced space travelers, astronaut John Watts Young has made six different NASA flights. Young's first space mission, Gemini 3, was made with veteran astronaut Gus Grissom on March 23, 1965. The following year, Young and Michael Collins teamed up on Gemini 10, in which they rendezvoused with two Agena spacecraft and set a record altitude of 475 miles. In May 1969, as command module pilot for Apollo 10, Young orbited in Charlie Brown while his fellow crewmen took the lunar module Snoopy to within 10 miles of the Moon -- a mission that served as a dress rehearsal for the first actual lunar landing in July. Three years later, Young finally set foot on the Moon himself when he commanded Apollo 16. Traveling nearly 17 miles in a lunar rover, he and Charles Duke spent three days on the Moon's surface setting up experiments and collecting over 200 pounds of Moon rocks. On April 12, 1981 -- exactly 20 years after Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space -- Young made his fifth NASA flight. Together with Robert Crippen, he flew on the premier mission in NASA's Space Shuttle program. From November 28 to December 8, 1983, Young commanded his second Shuttle mission, STS-9, which brought his total hours in space to 835. Commenting about his illustrious career during an interview, Young once stated, "I can't think of another single job I'd rather have -- in this world or out of it.

Image Size: 18.5 x 20.75 in.
Overall Size: 23.75 x 27 in.
Unframed.
(B15082)

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