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Reassured, Petersen climbed the narrow steps up to the flight deck, where his copilot, First Lieut. Joseph Czarkovski, had already started the preflight checkout of the plane's complex systems. Unlike air crews in World War 11 or Korea, who got to know all the foibles of their particular aircraft, Petersen and his men are not assigned to one plane. It was their first flight in 6623, and they might never fly her again. The crew had been together only since mid-January, and Petersen was substituted at the last moment for the regular aircraft commander, who had developed...
LIEUT. COMMANDER THOMAS KENNETH MATTINGLY II, U.S.N., 36, the COmmand-module pilot, has been the most conscientious member of the Apollo 16 crew during preflight training. With good reason, he leaves nothing to chance. Shortly before he was scheduled to make his first space flight aboard Apollo 13 two years ago, the longtime bachelor (he finally married in 1970) was accidentally exposed to the German measles. Because Mattingly had never had the disease or been immunized against it, NASA replaced him as command-module pilot rather than risk the first case of measles in space. Mattingly, who stayed behind...
Mitchell made preflight arrangements with four people to beam them, telepathically, various symbols in random sequence. He attempted transmission during four rest periods on the flight, then had the results checked after his return...
...scientists, must brief them from behind glass partitions in their sealed-off crew quarters. With the quarantine, NASA hopes to avert another Apollo 13-type measles crisis, which nearly caused a last-minute cancellation of the mission after one of the back-up astronauts contracted the disease on a preflight visit to Houston and exposed the prime crew...
...fever and a rash. Doctors diagnosed his illness as rubella, or German measles. Duke had apparently caught the disease from the children of friends. Dismayed NASA officials immediately ordered blood tests of Apollo 13's first-line crew members, who had come in contact with Duke during several preflight conferences. Both Astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise were found to be immune to rubella. Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly was not; his blood lacked the necessary antibodies...