Laurence R. Young is the Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the MIT faculty in 1962 and co-founded the Man-Vehicle Laboratory, which does research on the visual and vestibular systems, visual-vestibular interaction, flight simulation, space motion sickness, and manual control and displays. In 1991 Professor Young was selected as a Payload Specialist for Spacelab Life Sciences 2. He spent two years in training at Johnson Space Center and served as Alternate Payload Specialist during the October 1993 mission. Professor Young has been a Visiting Professor at the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and the Zurich Kantonsspital, a Visiting Professor at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, Paris, a Visiting Scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, and a Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

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