Signed and Contemporary Photographs of
Apollo 16 Command Module Pilot

Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II

The signed items below were signed on October 13, 2005.
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During his NASA career Adm. Mattingly was

  1. CMP on the prime crew of the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission until he was bumped following exposure to the measels.
  2. CMP on the prime crew of Apollo 16 lunar landing mission.
  3. Commander of the 4th and final test of the space shuttle Columbia on mission STS-4.
  4. Commander of space shuttle mission STS-51C.
While on a Florida family vacation on February 27, 1972 we visited the Kennedy Space Center. Astronaut and retired Rear Admiral Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II was Command Module Pilot (CMP) for the Apollo 16 mission whose Saturn V rocket was sitting on the pad that day. At left is a signed Apollo 16 white spacesuit portrait of Admiral Mattingly.

[Apollo 16 Pad 39A]

The above picture shows my Mother and me at Pad 39A at what was then called Cape Kennedy. The name has since reverted back to the original name of Cape Canaveral.

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[Dad at the pad]

Here I am standing with Dad at the pad. Behind us is a score board for the Pad 39 complex. It includes details of all Saturn V launches up to and including Apollo 15.

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Adm. Mattingly spoke in Washington, DC at a professional software users' conference sponsored by AGI. Below are a few of the photographs I took as he spoke. Clicking on any of the images will open an enlarged view in a new window.

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