Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.
Ken Mattingly, command module pilot on Apollo 16, participates in extravehicular activity , or spacewalk, training at the Manned Spacecraft Center in 1972.died on Tuesday released Thursday ."As a leader in exploratory missions, TK will be remembered for braving the unknown for the sake of our country's future."
Ken Mattingly's official NASA portrait as a member of the Apollo 13 crew. Mattingly was pulled from the mission after being exposed to the Rubella virus in April 1970."Movies and everything makes it look like we invented a lot of stuff. Well, thanks to the kind of simulation training program we had, maybe the things weren't exactly the same or in exactly the same order, but everything we ended up doing had been done somewhere," said Mattingly.
For 3 days, 9 hours, 27 minutes , Mattingly circled the moon alone aboard the command module"Casper," while photographing and mapping the lunar surface, as well as conducting more than 20 science experiments. "So, I started to go back to the service module when Charlie said, 'Look at that.' And there was my wedding ring floating out the door. I grabbed it and we put it in the pocket," Mattingly said."We had the chances of a gazillion to one."
"It was no uncertain terms that we were going to land on the Fourth of July, no matter what day we took off. Even if it was the fifth, we were going to land on the Fourth," Mattingly said with a laugh."That meant, if you didn't do any of your test mission, that's okay, as long as you just land on the Fourth, because the president is going to be there. We thought that was kind of interesting.".
Mattingly flew VA-35 and A1H aircraft from the USS Saratoga aircraft carrier from 1960 to 1963 and VAH-11 and A3B craft from the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1964 to 1966. He was a student at the Air Force Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base when he was selected as one of NASA's 19 new astronauts in April 1966.Between his flights on Apollo 16 and STS-4, Mattingly served in astronaut managerial positions in the space shuttle development program.
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