Ken Mattingly

Ken Mattingly was an American aviator, test pilot, rear admiral in the United States Navy and astronaut, born on 17 March 1936 in Chicago and died on 31 October 2023. NASA replaced him as Apollo 13 command module pilot three days before launch, and he then helped bring the crippled spacecraft home. He flew as command module pilot on Apollo 16, making 64 lunar orbits, and on the shuttle missions STS-4 and STS-51-C. On the way back from Apollo 16 he made a spacewalk to retrieve film cassettes. He and John Young are the only astronauts to have flown to the Moon and also orbited in the Space Shuttle.

Born: 17 March 1936
Died: 31 October 2023
Country: United States
Flights: 3: Apollo 16 (1972), STS-4 (1982), STS-51-C (1985)
Time in space: 21 days 4 hours

Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0). All people who have flown in space.

Events

11 April 1970

Apollo 13
- Apollo spacecraft, Saturn V
- Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, Fred Haise
Apollo 13 was meant to be the third landing on the Moon, in the Fra Mauro highlands. After the rupture it became a rescue, worked out in real time by the crew and the flight controllers in Houston. The crew never landed, and every one of them came home.
17 videos
- Roberto Mastri
- Rearview Mirror Media
- Homemade Documentaries
Apollo 16
- Apollo spacecraft, Saturn V
- John Young, Ken Mattingly, Charles Duke
1 video
- Everyday Astronaut