Ken Mattingly, born March 17, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois, is one of twenty-four people to fly to the moon. Mattingly was Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 16 mission in April 1972. During the return portion of the mission, he performed an EVA to retrieve film and data packages from the science bay on the side of the service module.
He had been assigned to be Command Module Pilot for Apollo 13 but was scrubbed only 72 hours before, due to being exposed to the measles. Gary Sinise played Mattingly in the movie Apollo 13.
During the space shuttle program, Mattingly commanded Columbia (STS-4) with Henry Harsfield June-July 1982, the final test flight for the shuttle.
He commanded Discovery (STS-51-C) in January 1985, the first space shuttle mission dedicated to the Department of Defense.
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