safe, and you want your employees to be safe. interesting discussion. happening now at any moment at the white house, president trump is going to meet up with at least 20 top lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. they re set to speak on immigration reform. both parties are aiming for a deal on the border wall and on dreamers. we re going to bring that to you as it happens. and it is now time for my favorite part of the show, monumental americans, honoring someone who might be deserving of a statue. today it is legendary astronaut john young, a space pioneer who braved six missions, flew the first shuttle mission and walked on the moon. john young was born in san francisco in 1930. in 1952 he joined the navy as a pilot. made his first flight as an astronaut on gemini 3. in is the 72 he walked on the moon during apollo 16. pretty amazing. young received more than 80 major honors and rewards and
became a test pilot. in 1962, he was chosen as part of the first group of astronauts selected after the mercury 7. his name may not be a household one. but many inside the space program believe his accomplishments rival those of shepard, glen and armstrong. his legacy in american space history really is in some ways more significant than armstrong s. john s career, with nasa, is over 40 years long. and he was he was so important to the entire human space flight program. reporter: during that time, about the only thing john young didn t fly was in a mercury capsule. in 1965, he and gus grissom flew the first two-man flight on board gemini 3. he flew again on gemini 10 and apollo 10 and walked on the moon with apollo 16 in 1972.
pilot. in 1962, he was chosen as part of the first group of astronauts selected after the mercury 7. his name may not be a household one, but many inside the space program believe his accomplishments rival those of shepard, glen and armstrong. his legacy in american space history really is in some ways more significant than armstrong s. john s career, with nasa, is over 40 years long. and he was he was so important to the entire human space flight program. reporter: during that time, about the only thing john young didn t fly was in a mercury capsule. in 1965, he and gus grissom flew the first two-man flight on board gemini 3. he flew again on gemini 10 and apollo 10 and walked on the moon with charlie duke on apollo 16 in 1972. a signature moment, duke snapped
they are going to place the enterprise and told us a little bit about how it s going to go down. we have that story coming up on happening now, a preview, if you will of what the public will actually get to see. jon: getting a little crowded on the flight deck there at the enterprise. jenna: they were sitting in a barge on the enterprise when we were there. you can imagine how big this thing is and what an immense feat it will be to lift it right up and put it on the enterprise deck. jon: it s history repeating itself in a sense. i m old enough to remember when the intrepid was an active duty ship back in 1965 gemini 3 the first manned flight of the gemini program, and as i understand it nasa s first controlled re-entry flight, made its splash down in the pacific. we were a bunch of school kid watching as the intrepid plucked
we ll take a little bit of time to dismount this plane because it take a little time to get it up on the 747. it is really remarkable to see what attaches it to the 747. you would imagine it would be more than that. obviously didn t go anywhere throughout the flight. jon: i am always amazed at the engineering, when you think about it, we went from the mercury and gemini and apollo programs with a cone-shaped capsule on top of those big atlas rockets, well in the case of the apollo program it was the atlas rocket. we went from that to this, sometimes ungainly-looking ship attached to a couple of solid rocket boosters and that external fuel tank. if scott horowitz is still with us, maybe he can comment on that. but the engineering and thinking that went into putting this glider really into space and then back to earth, that was a radical departure from what we had