He piloted Apollo 16 and commanded the shuttle. But he may be best known for the mission he didn't fly: the ill-fated Apollo 13. And he worried late in life about the high cost of human space flight.
Retired astronaut Ken Mattingly has died. He's pictured with crewmates Jim Lovell and Fred Haise at a news conference about a mission he ended up missing, the ill-fated Apollo 13.has died. He circled the moon as command module pilot on Apollo 16 and later flew the space shuttle. But he's probably best known for the mission he didn't get to fly: the ill-fated Apollo 13. He died Tuesday, Oct.
Mattingly loved technical things. He was aeronautical engineer who flew Navy jets off aircraft carriers. NASA selected him to be an astronaut in 1966 and three of the Apollo missions he was involved in were some of the most important.was to be his first trip to space. But he was removed from flight status days before launch because he'd been exposed to German measles."Was I disappointed? Oh you bet!" he recalled in 2017, speaking at Des Moines Area Community College in Iowa.
But Mattingly attended many of the emergency meetings — offering advice and giving controllers ideas how to save electrical power in the ailing spaceship.. As John Young and Charlie Duke walked on the lunar surface in 1972, he orbited in the command module conducting scientific experiments, recording observations and preparing for the trip home.. It was this part of his time with the space agency that made him most proud.
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