(ASQ: Milwaukee, Wisconsin) -- Instrumental in NASA’s efforts to rescue the astronauts of Apollo 13, retired Rear Adm. T.K. Mattingly will share his experience of teamwork and leadership at the American Society for Quality’s 2008 World Conference on Quality and Improvement, slated for May 5–7, 2008, at the George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas.

The Apollo 13 story wasn’t in one person rising to the occasion, but in thousands of people working at peak performance to do the impossible. Mattingly served on the support crew for the Apollo 8 (the first lunar orbit) and Apollo 11 (the first lunar landing) space missions. He was command-module pilot for Apollo 16. A member of the fledging space shuttle program in the ’70s, Mattingly served as lead astronaut for the shuttle design support team and led the development of national security missions to be flown on the shuttle.

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