Scrubbed from the flight because of exposure to measles, Mr. Mattingly helped devise a plan to return the astronauts safely after an explosion aboard the spacecraft.
Ken Mattingly, a NASA astronaut who was scrubbed from the Apollo 13 mission a few days before launch after being exposed to measles, then wound up helping devise a plan to return the crew safely to Earth following an onboard explosion, died Oct. 31 in Arlington, Va. He was 87.In early April of 1970, Mr. Mattingly was in his car when a breaking news came over the radio:“I just kind of pulled over to the side of the road and sat there for a while,” Mr.
On the third day of the mission, an onboard explosion knocked out power and oxygen in the command module. During the next four days – the window in which he could have but never came down with the measles – Mr. Mattingly strategized with NASA staff on plans to bring the crew safely home.actor Gary Sinise portrayed Mr. Mattingly tinkering alone for hours in a simulator testing a plan for the astronauts to retreat to Apollo’s lunar module before shifting back to the command module to land.Mr.
“Normally I found I could find things after a long period of time — they’d collect on the air filters,” he recalled. “But it never showed up.”“And there was my wedding ring floating out the door,” Mr. Mattingly recalled. “I grabbed it, and we put it in the pocket. We had the chances of a gazillion to one.”
In 1966, Mr. Mattingly — known as quiet and protective of his private life — was one of 19 astronauts selected in NASA’s fifth class of space explorers. His first spaceflight was aboard Apollo 16. He also served as commander on space shuttle missions in 1982 and 1985.
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