During a spacewalk on Apollo 16, astronaut Ken Mattingly nearly lost his wedding ring in space.
The ring floated away, Charlie Duke just missed catching it – but then, as if by a miracle, it bounced off Mattingly’s helmet and flew straight back into the capsule.
Credit: NASA
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I wonder how this happened if they wearing globes?
Anyonechas more details on this story?
It’s really intriging
This story is too absurd to be true, but it is. Ken loses the ring on the 2nd, spends days looking for it, almost gives up, then during the spacewalk the ring floats out of the ship, Charlie tries to grab it, misses, and the ring decides to bounce right on the back of Ken’s neck and go back inside.
In case anyone is wondering why they performed the spacewalk. It was to retrieve film cannisters from exterior cameras for transfer to the return module.