John Watts Young, 1930-2018

John Young died yesterday. It is difficult to imagine any other astronaut, past, present or future, having a career as amazing as the life that John Young lived. It was an honor to have known him.

Today, January 6th, marks the first day in human history where there are more deceased moonwalkers than there are living ones. I expect that it will take many many moons for that statistic to turned around. Kind of like Pluto's orbit getting closer than Neptune. You've got to wait an extremely long time for the previous order to go back into place. It will be interesting to see if the number of living moonwalkers reaches zero. That would actually be a very easy prediction to make. I'd put the probability that it won't at less than 1%.

I hope a fitting tribute to John Young gets done. People like Neil Armstrong have a statue. John deserves something big.

~ CT