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He attended the Lancaster High School, South Carolina, then graduated from US Air Force.ĭuke was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on 3 October 1935. To release him from the agony of the Apollo 13 drama. The backup CMP, Jack Swigert, took his place He was selected as Command Module Pilotįor Apollo 13 but was removed from the crew three days prior to launch because He played an important role in the development Of astronauts in 1966, Mattingly was a student at the USAF Aerospace Research

He had logged more than 4,000 hours flying time, 2,200 inĪt the time of his selection as a member of the fifth group Graduated from Edison High School in Miami, Florida, and left it to trainĪs an aeronautical engineer at Auburn University, receiving his Bachelor’sĭegree in 1958. Mattingly was born on 17 March 1936 in Chicago, Illinois. He is the first man to go into lunar orbit twice. Under Tom Stafford, and backup Commander on Apollo 13 before joining the Apolloġ6 mission. He then served as Command Module Pilot on the Apollo 10 lunar mission With Gus Grissom on Gemini 3 and later as Commander of Gemini 10 with MichaelĬollins. In 1962, and was the first of the group to be assigned a mission. Young was selected as a member of the second group of pilot-astronauts More than 5,400 hours flying time, 4,400 in jets. In Aeronautical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1952.Īfter his graduation, he joined the U.

He graduated from Orlando High School, Florida, before receiving his BS degree

Young was born on 24 September 1930 in San Francisco, California.