Alan shepard was the oldest person to walk on the moon at age 47 years and 80 days.
Did ken mattingly walk on the moon.
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.
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.
Mattingly finally made it to the moon himself on apollo 16.
On the second day of the 1972 11 day trip to the moon and back command module pilot ken mattingly lost his wedding ring.
Apollo 13 launched on april 11 1970 from cape kennedy fla with haise lovell and command module pilot jack swigert aboard.
The movie shows him wallowing on the couch with a can of.
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.
He performed observations and experiments from orbit while his crewmates john young and charles duke did 20 plus hours of exploration.
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.
Radm thomas kenneth mattingly ii usn ret.
It just floated off somewhere and none of us could find it duke says.
He next took a job with general dynamics working on atlas rockets.
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.
Ken mattingly retired from the agency in 1985 and from the navy the following year with the rank of rear admiral.
He was later the spacecraft.
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.