Thomas Kenneth 'Ken' Mattingly II (1936-2023)

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Thomas Mattingly II - najmłodszy z astronautów programu Apollo, który poleciał w kierunku Księżyca obchodzi dziś 84. urodziny.

Wszystkiego najlepszego i dużo zdrowia nie tylko w czasach pandemii 

Życzenia od Buzza https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=551.msg142630#msg142630

56. człowiek w kosmosie.
Odbył 3 loty kosmiczne o łącznym czasie trwania wynoszącym 21d 04g 34m 08s.
Odbył 1 spacer kosmiczny, który trwał 01g 23m 42s.

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/former-astronaut-thomas-k-mattingly-ii/

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/mattingly_thomas.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/m/mattingly.html
https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/m/mattingly-t.php

https://mek.kosmo.cz/bio/usa/00056.htm
http://www.kozmo-data.sk/kozmonauti/mattingly-ii-thomas-kenneth.html
https://www.astronaut.ru/crossroad/056.htm
https://www.april12.eu/usaastron/mattingly56ru.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Mattingly
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mattingly

https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/MattinglyTK/MattinglyTK_11-6-01.htm

https://www.astronaut.ru/register/514.htm

http://www.collectspace.com/sightings/sightings-mattingly.html
https://peoplepill.com/people/ken-mattingly/
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https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-4.html

STS-51C Discovery Artykuły astronautyczne
STS-4 Columbia; Independence Day at NASA Dryden - July 4, 1982 https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=800.msg133807#msg133807

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Apollo Astronaut Mattingly Lauded for Service
03.26.08


Mattingly (right) receives an Ambassador of Exploration award from NASA's Acting Administrator Christopher Scolese. Courtesy Auburn University. Click image to enlarge.

NASA honored Thomas K. "Ken" Mattingly II, an Apollo and shuttle astronaut, for his contributions to the U.S. space program at a ceremony on Thursday, March 26. Mattingly accepted the Ambassador of Exploration Award at Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University from which he graduated in 1958. The award will be displayed at the Alabama university.

NASA is giving the award to the first generation of explorers in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programs for realizing America's goal of going to the moon. The award is a moon rock encased in Lucite, mounted for public display. The rock is part of the 842 pounds of lunar samples collected during six Apollo expeditions from 1969 to 1972.

Mattingly, a native Chicagoan, was the command module pilot for the Apollo 16 mission, which traveled to the moon in 1972. He also was designated command module pilot for the Apollo 13 flight, but he was removed from flight status 72 hours before the scheduled launch because of exposure to the German measles.

Mattingly is one of a few Apollo astronauts who also flew aboard the space shuttle. He was the shuttle commander on missions STS-4 in 1982 and STS 51-C in 1985. Mattingly has logged 504 hours in space, including 1 hour and 13 minutes of spacewalking during his Apollo 16 flight.
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/people/features/mattingly.html

Ken Mattingly Space Lecture at Pontefract, UK - Apollo 13 Apollo 16


Astronaut T.K. Mattingly Honored with Ambassador of Exploration Award


TK Mattingly Interview HTC2012 OrionModule


https://twitter.com/xChopper9/status/1675488496755130369

Today marks the 53rd anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 13 mission to the moon. It was an honor to play TK (Ken) Mattingly in the 1995 film with a wonderful cast. Here are some behind-the-scenes photos from the making of the movie. Enjoy!

I met Ken passing through Roanoke in the early 80s. I was getting gas for this nasty old freighter I was flying in and he was there, broke down in a NASA T-38. I think his air starter had failed. I was a major space buff and recognized him, especially because I was also from Hialeah. I found out later that his Mom and my Mom knew each other. He's an amazing man! Great mix of smarts, heart, and humor. I really enjoyed the little bit of time I got to spend with him.

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Ken Mattingly Explains How the Apollo 13 Movie Differed From Real Life
APRIL 17, 2013 BY ELIZABETH HOWELL



Many astronauts seem to like the Apollo 13 movie, but being technically minded folk they also enjoy pointing out what actually happened during that so-called “successful failure” that landed safely on this day in 1970.

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. The movie shows him wallowing on the couch with a can of beer before hearing of an oxygen tank explosion on board. He then spends most of the movie stuck in a simulator, helping to save the three men on board the spacecraft.

Real life wasn’t quite the same as the movie portrayed, the real Mattingly said in a 2001 interview with NASA.

For one thing, Mattingly had no assigned role in the rescue as he was a backup crew member. He ended up working in a lot of teams rather than a single project or two. There also were some technical differences between the movie and real life. Some examples:

The “lifeboat” procedures: In the movie, mission controllers huddle in a side room and try to figure out how to stretch the resources of the lunar module — designed to carry only two men for a couple of days — into a four-day lifeboat to support three men. While this is somewhat true, NASA already had a preliminary lifeboat procedure simulated, Mattingly pointed out. The movie made it appear as though, he said, “we invented a lot of stuff”.

Somewhere in an earlier sim [simulation], there had been an occasion to do what they call LM lifeboat, which meant you had to get the crew out of the command module and into the lunar module, and they stayed there. I vaguely remember—when you have a really exciting sim, why, generally everybody knows about it. I vaguely remember that they had come up with a thing that contaminated the atmosphere in the command module, and they had to vent it, and they put the crew into the—there’s some reason that instead of staying in their suits in the command module, they put them in the lunar module while they did this.


Apollo 13’s original crew of Jim Lovell, Ken Mattingly and Fred Haise with an unidentified person. Credit: NASA

The carbon dioxide filter: In the movie, as the crew faces a deadly buildup of carbon dioxide, a team in mission control builds a new system on the spot that adapts an originally incompatible filter. “Well, the real world is better than that,” Mattingly explained, saying there was a simulation for the Apollo 8 mission where a cabin fan was jammed due to a loose screw.

The solution that they came up with was that they could make a way to use the vacuum cleaner in the command module with some plastic bags cut up and taped to the lithium hydroxide cartridges and blow through it with a vacuum cleaner. So, having discovered it, they said, “Okay, it’s time for beer.” Well, on 13, someone says, “You remember what we did on that sim? Who did that?” So in nothing short, Joe [Joseph P.] Kerwin showed up, and we talked about “How did you build that bag and what did you do?” … Of course it worked like a gem.

Simulating the startup: In the movie, Mattingly spends hours in a simulator putting together the procedures for starting up the cold, dead command module in time to bring the astronauts safely back to Earth. While that is a good way of conveying the mission’s aim to the public, the simulation runs (done by other astronauts, Mattingly said) were more of a verification of already written procedures.

We said, “Let’s get somebody cold to go run the procedures.” So I think it was [Thomas P.] Stafford, [Joe H.] Engle — I don’t know who was the third person, might have been [Stuart A.] Roosa. But anyhow, they went to the simulator there at JSC [Johnson Space Center], and we handed them these big written procedures and said, “Here. We’re going to call these out to you, and we want you to go through, just like Jack will. We’ll read it up to you. See if there are nomenclatures that we have made confusing or whatever. Just wring it out. See if there’s anything in the process that doesn’t work.”

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https://www.universetoday.com/101531/ken-mattingly-explains-how-the-apollo-13-movie-differed-from-real-life/

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Apollo 13 in Real Time offers new insight into mission, 50 years later

March 13, 2020 — "I'm naturally concerned. How do things look this morning?"

It is 7:06 a.m. CDT on April 14, 1970. Ten hours earlier, almost to the minute, an explosion on board the Apollo 13 spacecraft ("Houston, we've had a problem") put the mission into peril, threatening the lives of astronauts Jack Swigert, Fred Haise and Jim Lovell.

"My kids aren't up yet and they don't even know what is going on. They went to sleep before all this came up last night. And I was wondering what I could tell them as far as... um, um, in other words, are we really pretty safe right now?"

Marilyn Lovell, Jim's Lovell wife, is on the phone with Ken Mattingly, the capsule communicator (capcom) in Mission Control. Were it not for Mattingly being exposed to the German measles less than a week earlier, it would have been him, not Swigert, now aboard Apollo 13.

"We got the first mid-course correction off, which puts them on, they are now on a free return trajectory. I don't know if that happened before you went to bed or not."

"Yeah, well, I didn't go to bed until, I think it was 4, and I got up at 5, so I really haven't had much sleep."

That poignant exchange — you can hear the concern and sheer exhaustion in Marilyn Lovell's voice — might read as though it came out of a movie script. But it is real; an example of one of the many never-before-heard conversations that are presented through the Apollo 13 In Real Time website, which launched on Friday (March 13). (...)

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-031320a-apollo-13-real-time-website.html

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CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight69  16 mar 2020

#OTD Birthday coincidence: Astronaut Ken Mattingly (84) #Apollo16 and the man who played him in "#Apollo13," Gary Sinise (65)

March 17....




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Gary Sinise Apollo13 (1995)
https://twitter.com/aresluoga/status/1239885588335116290

Born on this day in 1955, #GoldenGlobe Award, #Emmy Award and #SAG Award-winning, and #AcademyAward nominated actor, writer, musician, director, and producer #GarySinise
#ForrestGump (1994)
#Apollo13 (1995)
#TheGreenMile (1999)

Apollo 13 - Power-Up Successful

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 W wieku 87 lat zmarł były astronauta NASA Thomas Kenneth 'Ken' Mattingly II.

NASA wydała oświadczenie!

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Fotografia z 2019:

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Zostało już 2. żyjących uczestników lotów w programie STS o wcześniejszym doświadczeniu kosmicznym (Lousma, Brandt).
Śmierć Kena Mattingly'ego oznacza pierwszą załogę w programie STS, która zmarła w całości z przyczyn naturalnych.

Ken Mattingly, Astronaut Scrubbed From Apollo 13, Is Dead at 87
By Richard Goldstein Nov. 2, 2023, 5:11 p.m. ET

He later orbited the moon, but in 1970 he was bumped from the Apollo flight after being exposed to measles. Then, from mission control, he helped it avert disaster.


Ken Mattingly, right, aboard a command module training vessel in Houston in 1972 as he prepared for Apollo 16, the next-to-last manned mission to the moon. Credit...NASA


Mr. Mattingly, right, during a spacewalk on April 25, 1972, as part of the Apollo 16 mission. His fellow astronaut Lt. Col. Charles M. Duke Jr. was with him.Credit...NASA


The Apollo 16 crew during training in the Gulf of Mexico in 1972. From left were Mr. Mattingly, John W. Young and Colonel Duke.Credit...NASA


Mr. Mattingly, left, at mission control in Houston during the flight of Apollo 13 in 1970. Having been bumped from the mission, he played a significant part in bringing the astronauts onboard home to safety after an oxygen tank explosion crippled the command module. With him was Joseph P. Kerwin, a spacecraft communicator for the mission.Credit...NASA


Mr. Mattingly, standing at left, in the mission control operations room in Houston during the Apollo 13 mission.Credit...NASA
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/science/space/ken-mattingly-dead.html

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Ken Mattingly, who launched to the moon on Apollo 16, dies at 87

November 2, 2023 — For the record, Ken Mattingly never did get the German measles.

The former NASA astronaut, who in 1970 was pulled from the Apollo 13 crew due to being exposed to the Rubella virus, died on Tuesday (Oct. 31) at the age of 87. Mattingly's death was confirmed by NASA.

"NASA astronaut TK Mattingly was key to the success of our Apollo Program, and his shining personality will ensure he is remembered throughout history," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement released Thursday. "As a leader in exploratory missions, TK will be remembered for braving the unknown for the sake of our country's future."
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-110223a-thomas-ken-tk-mattingly-nasa-astronaut-obituary.html

Apollo astronaut Ken Mattingly, who helped save the crew of Apollo 13, has died
By Paradise Afshar, CNN Published 6:57 AM EDT, Fri November 3, 2023




Astronaut Thomas Mattingly II celebrates the successful rescue of the Apollo 13 spacecraft and crew with a box of cigars at the Mission Control of the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.


Apollo 16 astronauts (L-R) Charles M Duke, John W Young, and Thomas K Mattingly II take a break during a training exercise in preparation for the Lunar Landing mission, in February 1972.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/03/us/ken-mattingly-death-apollo-astronaut-scn/index.html

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231102-apollo-astronaut-thomas-k-mattingly-dies-aged-87
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ken-mattingly-apollo-16-astronaut-dies-at-87/
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/space/article/nasa-astronaut-tk-mattingly-dies-18465501.php

Apollo astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly II remembered by NASA


Astronaut Thomas Ken Mattingly dies at 87


https://twitter.com/kevconrad2/status/1720186342896791837

We’ve lost another Apollo hero. RIP Ken. Now only 9 of the 24 men who flew to the Moon are with us.

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https://twitter.com/TheRealBuzz/status/1720513070567432554

The passing of my good friend, colleague and American hero TK Mattingly is sad news – for his family, friends, the space and astronaut community, and for America. He was a great test pilot, a Navy veteran, a class act, and a heck of a good man. I’ll always remember him for his natural ability to handle an immense degree of responsibility under pressure without getting rattled – a true professional of the rarest kind. He will be truly missed. Rest in Peace, Ken.

Disparition de l'astronaute T. ''Ken'' Mattingly (1936-2023) à l'âge de 87 ans.
Il était le pilote du module de commande lors d'Apollo 16 en 1972, et Commandant des missions STS-4 en 1982 et STS-51C en 1985
Un hommage lui sera rendu demain sur Space Quotes - Souvenirs d'espace

L'hommage de Space Quotes - Souvenirs d'espace à Ken Mattingly qui vient de nous quitter...
https://spacemen1969.blogspot.com/2023/11/disparition-de-lastronaute-ken.html

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https://twitter.com/ron_eisele/status/1769068881669189755

17 March 1936. Birth of Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II, American astronaut and Rear Admiral in the US Navy who flew on the Apollo 16, STS-4 and STS-51-C missions. One of only 24 men to have flown to the Moon.

https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1769393264577183903

https://twitter.com/ron_eisele/status/1796253689612816504

31 October 2023. Death of Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II. American aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, rear admiral in the United States Navy and astronaut who flew as CMP on Apollo 16, Space Shuttle missions STS-4 and STS-51-C.

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#OTD is #Apollo16 astronaut Ken Mattingly's 89th birthday (March 17, 1936).  (RIP)
Happy German measles :-)

https://bsky.app/profile/contactlight.de/post/3lkj4zkcse22w

On this day in 1936, astronaut T.K. Mattingly was born. Mattingly served as a pilot in the U.S. Navy before becoming an astronaut. He orbited the Moon as command module pilot on Apollo 16 and commanded space shuttle missions STS-4 and STS-51-C.

https://x.com/airandspace/status/1901653854954889465

#OTD Birthday coincidence: Astronaut Ken Mattingly (RIP) #Apollo16 and the man who played him in "#Apollo13," Gary Sinise
March 17....

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