Ken Mattingly Apollo 13 Simulation

Radm thomas kenneth mattingly ii usn ret.

Ken mattingly apollo 13 simulation.

As a result he is part of the team working in the flight simulator to figure out how all the ship board systems can be restarted without overtaxing the batteries. Mattingly usually downplays his role in the rescue. Command module pilot ken mattingly was exposed to german measles and grounded. Mattingly said they solved the problem for apollo 13 in about an hour or two but another half hour was spent building a demonstration model.

Mattingly said they solved the problem for apollo 13 in about an hour or two but another half hour was spent building a demonstration model. Here s the order of what i want to do. I want to power up guidance e c s communications warm up the pyros for the parachutes and the command module thrusters. 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.

Thursday april 9 1970. Two days before launch. Nasa officials decided that ken mattingly 13 s command module pilot must be grounded as he had been exposed to the measles by another astronaut s son ken didn t have the measles but the doctors feared he might become ill in the middle of the mission nasa decided to substitute him with the back up pilot jack swigert. 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.

Apollo 13 1995 gary sinise as ken mattingly. When the apollo 13 command module. The power up procedures in the movie an engineer named john aaron is tasked with trying to figure out how to power up the command module using just the ship s batteries and mattingly is in the simulator. Nothing remotely like this had ever happened in a simulation flight.