“We lost one of our country’s heroes on Oct. 31,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a Thursday statement.
Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, one of the leading astronauts who helped the Apollo 13 mission return to earth, has died.NASA releases eerie pictures of ‘ghostly cosmic hand’ in outer spaceNASA spacecraft snaps ‘face figure’ on Jupiter during close flyby of the planet
On the trip back to Earth, Mattingly spacewalked to collect film canisters with photographs he had snapped of the moon’s surface. Mattingly “stayed behind and provided key real-time decisions to successfully bring home the wounded spacecraft and the crew,” NASA’s Nelson said.
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