Just read that astronaut John Young is retiring from NASA. The amazing thing is that he's been an astronaut as long as I have been alive (he joined in 1962), and flew six missions in four different spacecraft (the article in the link doesn't explicitly state it, but from the fact that he flew two Gemini missions (including the first), two Apollo missions, and two shuttle missions (including the first), I make that the Gemini, Apollo, LEM, and Shuttle. He's 74 this year.
Hats off to such a pioneer spirit. Would that the world, the USA, and NASA had many, many more like him.
I'm not a big reader of biographies, but if he has written one I'd like to. I'll have to check out the Biography channel to see if they do a bio program of him. They should.
UPDATE: Here's the NASA biography of John W. Young.
