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Ken Mattingly, a Rare card
Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II was an American aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, rear admiral in the United States Navy, and astronaut who orbited the Moon on Apollo 16 and flew on the STS-4 and STS-51-C missions.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 74
- Power
- 143
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 230,000
Power 143 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Ken Mattingly quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ken Mattingly card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Mattingly flew as CMP for Apollo 16 and made 64 lunar orbits, becoming one of the 24 Apollo ______ to reach the Moon.
Answer
astronauts. Mattingly flew as CMP for Apollo 16 and made 64 lunar orbits, becoming one of the 24 Apollo astronauts to reach the Moon. From the Ken Mattingly article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kevin McHale. Kevin McHale 78 · Chuck Jones 75 · Raymond Briggs 72 · Ken Mattingly 69 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Born in Chicago, Illinois, Mattingly was replaced as Apollo 13 command module pilot three days before launch, then helped NASA bring the crippled spacecraft home.
- Mattingly flew as CMP for Apollo 16 and made 64 lunar orbits, becoming one of the 24 Apollo astronauts to reach the Moon.
- During Apollo 16's return to Earth, Mattingly performed an extravehicular activity to retrieve film cassettes from the command and service module.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ken Mattingly article was read about 230,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 74: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Ken Mattingly
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ken Mattingly (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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