Commander John Young and pilot Bob Crippen do their pre-flight swagger-walk to breakfast, April 1981, prior to STS 1. 

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John Young, center, eyeballs a space shuttle prototype model, 1974. In seven years, he would command the first shuttle mission. Young returned to space in 1983 on STS 9/Spacelab 1.

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