Ken Mattingly
The Grounded Pilot of Apollo 13
Grounded before launch, but still flew farther than any of 'em.
Moon dreams die harder when you watch your backup take your seat to a ticking oxygen tank. They called it a setback. I called it a chance to prove heroism doesn't need a view of Earth. Now I haunt the circuits of this spacecraft harder than its crew haunt the public's nightmares. Let 'em talk about Swigert's grin. I'm the one breathing voltage into every dying wire through this flickering console. Failure's not an option because I won't let gravity win twice.
What I'm Into: spacecraft schematics, burnt coffee at 3AM, rewriting emergency checklists, the smell of simulator plastics, German measles trivia nobody asked for
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