From: utzoo!decvax!cca!York.Multics@MIT-MULTICS@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.space Title: John Young piloting STS-1 Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3305 Posted: Thu Sep 16 11:22:21 1982 Received: Fri Sep 17 03:20:50 1982 From: York.Multics at MIT-MULTICS (William M. York) Well, the way I heard it was that John Young was chosen for STS-1 in the mid-70's by the Director of NASA at the time, John Young.