Death of John Young who grew up in Orlando. – January 6th, 2018
John Young, one of 12 people to step on the moon, died today at 87. John Young moved to Orlando from Georgia in the early ’40s and went to Princeton Elementary School (Just as did Swampy’s Florida’s Rob Smith, Jr.) and graduated from Orlando High School before moving on to Georgia Tech and a career in the Navy, NASA and one of our great American heroes launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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