John Young, 74, "King of the Astronauts" is retiring. This is a man who's rookie space voyage was on the first manned Gemini mission in 1965, a man who's been to the moon twice, a man who commanded the first Space Shuttle.

He's also the man who smuggled a corned beef sandwich on board his ship back when all the space food was strictly confined to toothpaste tubes. He's the man who's Apollo 10 Lunar Module spiraled out of control 10 miles above the moon, before he and Tom Stafford regained control. And this is the man who careened at top speed through the gray moon dirt in his lunar rover, spraying rooster tails of dust as he passed by.

This is a legend.