Ronald Evans (astronaut) 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He served as a member of the astronaut support crews for the Apollo 7 and Apollo 11 flights, and as backup Command Module Pilot for Apollo 14. Evans' only space flight was as Command Module Pilot of Apollo 17, the last scheduled U.S. manned mission to the Moon. He was accompanied by Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt. While Cernan and Schmitt landed and worked on the Moon in the Taurus–Littrow valley, Evans remained in lunar orbit on board the Command Module "America", completing assigned work tasks which required visual geological observations, hand-held
John Young (astronaut) spacecraft for their tenth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station would be named S.S. "John Young". In the 1995 film, "Apollo 13", Young was played by Ben Marley. In the 1998 HBO miniseries, "From the Earth to the Moon", he was played by John Posey. Young is one of the astronauts featured in the documentary film and book, "In the Shadow of the Moon"; the Discovery Channel series, ""; and the documentary film, "The Wonder of It All". John Young (astronaut) John Watts Young (September 24, 1930 – January 5, 2018) was an American astronaut, naval officer and