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Re:Ken Mattingly, Astronaut Scrubbed from Apollo 13, Is Dead... by Amorymeltzer on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:00AM (#38128876)
If I'm assuming good faith, I'd say that Mattingly is, as the lede notes, best known amongst the populace for being scrubbed from 13. If you weren't alive to witness 13 or 16, the movie is probably where most people get all their Ken Mattingly information. This does him a disservice but is probably what people will know him best for.

Truth be told, I think most people won't know the name or even Apollo 16, but will know Apollo 13.

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Re:Ken Mattingly, Astronaut Scrubbed from Apollo 13, Is Dead... by geoduck14 on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:27AM (#38129284)
>Truth be told, I think most people won't know the name or even Apollo 16, but will know Apollo 13.

To be fair, when I saw a headline on another service, it mentioned "Apollo 16," and I legitimacy thought it was about "Apollo 13," because that is the only Apollo I know.

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Re:Ken Mattingly, Astronaut Scrubbed from Apollo 13, Is Dead... by SketchySeaBeast on Friday November 03, 2023 @11:19AM (#38130122)
You know Apollo 13 but not 11?
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Re:Ken Mattingly, Astronaut Scrubbed from Apollo 13, Is Dead... by stg22 on Sunday November 05, 2023 @12:52PM (#38153562)
Yup. The crew and achievements of 11 are far more famous, but most people couldn't tell you which number their Apollo mission was.
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Re:Ken Mattingly, Astronaut Scrubbed from Apollo 13, Is Dead... by IndySun on Friday November 03, 2023 @11:15AM (#38130049)
Even at my age I can learn new words - though why I've never come across this before is a mystery - lede.
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Re:Ken Mattingly, Astronaut Scrubbed from Apollo 13, Is Dead... by gameshot911 on Friday November 03, 2023 @11:29AM (#38130291)
You may have heard the expression "to bury the lede"
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Re:Ken Mattingly, Astronaut Scrubbed from Apollo 13, Is Dead... by walthamstow on Friday November 03, 2023 @12:05PM (#38130745)
Lead is the normal word for something that is at the front. For some reason journalists spell it incorrectly as a form of in-joke/slang term among their profession.
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Re:Ken Mattingly, Astronaut Scrubbed from Apollo 13, Is Dead... by InitialLastName on Friday November 03, 2023 @12:29PM (#38131060)
You'll see it frequently mis-unused when people use the phrase (in writing) "bury the lead".
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