Ken mattingly retired from the agency in 1985 and from the navy the following year with the rank of rear admiral.
Did ken mattingly walk on the moon.
Born march 17 1936 is a former american aviator aeronautical engineer test pilot rear admiral in the united states navy and astronaut who flew on the apollo 16 sts 4 and sts 51 c missions.
On the second day of the 1972 11 day trip to the moon and back command module pilot ken mattingly lost his wedding ring.
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He performed observations and experiments from orbit while his crewmates john young and charles duke did 20 plus hours of exploration.
Alan shepard was the oldest person to walk on the moon at age 47 years and 80 days.
The movie shows him wallowing on the couch with a can of.
Thomas ken mattingly was supposed to be on that crew but was yanked at the last minute because he was exposed to the german measles.
Mattingly had been scheduled to fly on apollo 13 but three days prior to launch he was held back and removed from the mission due to exposure to german.
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He began working at grumman on the company s space station support programs before becoming chairman of universal space network.
Apollo 13 launched on april 11 1970 from cape kennedy fla with haise lovell and command module pilot jack swigert aboard.
He next took a job with general dynamics working on atlas rockets.
He was later the spacecraft.
It just floated off somewhere and none of us could find it duke says.
Swigert was a late replacement for original command module pilot ken mattingly who was scrubbed from the mission after charlie duke contracted the measles from one of his children thus exposing all three members of the primary crew to the virus.
Young flew with charlie duke and ken mattingly on the apollo 16 lunar landing mission becoming the ninth man to walk on the moon in april 1972.