Ken Mattingly
Astronaut Jack Swigert got sick on Apollo 13 with a urinary tract infection shortly before launch, but he recovered in time to fly the mission.
what mercury astronaut was supposed to fly on the apollo 13
The name of that astronaut was Thomas. K. Mat tingly and he was first chosen to fly in the Apollo 13 with James Lovell , Fred. w. Haise . So the back up astronaut Jack Swigert took his place.
Fred Haise was the third astronaut who landed on the moon during Apollo 13 mission.
The astronaut of Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 was James Lovell.
Ken Mattingly flew as Command Module Pilot on Apollo 16.
Astronaut Jack Swigert got sick on Apollo 13 with a urinary tract infection shortly before launch, but he recovered in time to fly the mission.
what mercury astronaut was supposed to fly on the apollo 13
It was Astronaut Jack Swigert who replaced the sick astronaut Thomas Mattingly.
The name of that astronaut was Thomas. K. Mat tingly and he was first chosen to fly in the Apollo 13 with James Lovell , Fred. w. Haise . So the back up astronaut Jack Swigert took his place.
Fred Haise was the third astronaut who landed on the moon during Apollo 13 mission.
The astronaut of Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 was James Lovell.
The Apollo 13 astronauts Jim Lovell, and Fred W. Haise were married and had children.But Jack Swigert was a bachelor.
Apollo 1 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 2 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 3 astronaut names: Virgil I. Grissom, Edward White, Roger B. Chaffee Apollo 4 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 5 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 6 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 7 astronaut names: Walter Schirra, Don Eisele, Walter Cunigham Apollo 8 astronaut names: Frank Borman, Jm Lovell, William Anders Apollo 9 astronaut names: James McDivitt, David Scott, Russel Schweickart Apollo 10 astronaut names: Tomas Stafford, John Young, Eugene Cernan Apollo 11 astronaut names: Neil Armstrong, Micheal Collins, "Buzz" Aldrin Apollo 12 astronaut names: Charles Conrad, Richard Gordan, Alan Bean Apollo 13 astronaut names: Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, Fred Haise Apollo 14 astronaut names: Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, Edgar Mitchell Apollo 15 astronaut names: David Scott, Alfred Worden, James Irwin Apollo 16 astronaut names: John Young, Ken Mattingly, Charles Duke Apollo 17 astronaut names: Eugen Cernan, Robert Evans, Harrison Schmitt
It was actually astronaut Jack Swigert who relayed the famous message "Houston, we've had a problem" to Mission Control on the Apollo 13 mission. This phrase was slightly altered in the movie "Apollo 13" to "Houston, we have a problem."
On the back-up crew Charlie Duke got the measles and they took Ken Mattingly off of the mission because he was exposed to them and was supposed to get sick but he never did.
Jim Lovell