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.