It just floated off somewhere and none of us could find it duke says.
Did ken mattingly walk on the moon.
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Mattingly finally made it to the moon himself on apollo 16.
He performed observations and experiments from orbit while his crewmates john young and charles duke did 20 plus hours of exploration.
Twelve people have walked on earth s moon starting with neil armstrong and ending with gene cernan all crewed lunar landings took place between july 1969 and december 1972 as part of the united states apollo program the only individuals to have ever explored the surface of the moon were from the united states.
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.
On the second day of the 1972 11 day trip to the moon and back command module pilot ken mattingly lost his wedding ring.
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.
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.
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.
Ken mattingly retired from the agency in 1985 and from the navy the following year with the rank of rear admiral.
Apollo 13 launched on april 11 1970 from cape kennedy fla with haise lovell and command module pilot jack swigert aboard.
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.
He began working at grumman on the company s space station support programs before becoming chairman of universal space network.
He next took a job with general dynamics working on atlas rockets.
If mattingly were to come down with the measles he might contract it while alone in the command module while jim lovell and fred haise were walking on the moon.
Radm thomas kenneth mattingly ii usn ret.