Chapter 2 Thursday, April 2, 1970 inn didn't have to wait for Apollo 14--the plans for the Apollo trips d Astronaut Alan Shepard had a problem with one of his cars and he couldn't go on Apollo 13. So Jim Lovell took his place. It's my time now thought Jim "I'm going to the Moon m wasn't the only astronaut on Apollo 13. The other men Fred Haise and Ken Mattingly. Ken was the command They had were and Fred was the lunar module pilot astronauts module pilot command module was the Apollo jobs. The home for the long trip from Earth, and the small lunar module took the astronauts down to the Moon. It was now nine days before the trip. The three astronauts were inside the command module simulator. They watched the controls in front of them. OK, Ken said a controller at Mission Control. "You're the command module pilot. Can you dock Odyssey to Aquarius?" "Yes, sir," answered Ken On the controls in front of him, there was an X and a picture of the lunar module. Ken had to get the X over the picture. That way, the lunar module and the command module could dock This was important. The lunar module was behind the command module when 13 left Earth. In space, the astronauts had t move it. They could only go from one module to the othe module when the two modules were nose to nose. Fred watched the numbers on the controls. Houston, we're at thirty meters now," he said into his radio