Ken Mattingly Space Missions

Ken mattingly is a nasa astronaut who flew on the apollo 16 mission and twice on.

Ken mattingly space missions.

After the apollo missions mattingly become a space shuttle astronaut and flew two missions. He had been scheduled to fly on apollo 13 but was held back due to concerns about a potential illness which he did not contract. Radm thomas kenneth mattingly ii usn ret. But this wasn t supposed to be his first apollo mission.

The first was sts 4 from june 26 to july 4 1982. Thomas kenneth ken mattingly ii born march 17 1936 is a retired american astronaut naval aviator and rear admiral in the united states navy who flew on the apollo 16 sts 4 and sts 51 c missions. The mission assigned to apollo 16 was to collect samples from the lunar highlands at a location near the. Biography march 17 1936 thomas kenneth ken mattingly ii born march 17 1936 is a retired american astronaut naval aviator and rear admiral in the united states navy who flew on the apollo 16 sts 4 and sts 51 c missions.

The crew included john w. He had been scheduled to fly on apollo 13 but was held back. Apollo 16 april 1627 1972 was the fifth manned lunar landing mission. This was the fourth and final orbital test flight for the space shuttle columbia and mattingly was the mission commander.

Young spacecraft commander ken mattingly command module pilot and charles m. In addition to his space missions mattingly was an astronaut support crew member for the apollo 8 and. Thomas kenneth mattingly ii born march 17 1936 radm usn ret better known as ken mattingly is a former american naval officer and aviator flag officer 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. Mattingly was originally been scheduled to fly aboard the ill fated apollo 13 but was swapped out at the last minute with jack swigert after being exposed to measles.

He had been scheduled to fly on apollo 13 but was held back due to concerns about a. Just 72 hours before the scheduled launch of apollo 13 ken mattingly was removed from the mission and replaced by jack swigert from the back up crew as command module pilot. Sts 4 did 112 orbits of the earth. He later flew as command module pilot for apollo 16 making.

Mattingly command module pilot of apollo 16 and two time shuttle astronaut has come to pontefract to talk to us thanks to the hard work and efforts of the space lectures team led by ken willoughby.