One of the dramatic developments in the story is the last-minute replacement of Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly by his backup, Jack Swigert . (Mattingly subsequently replaced Swigert on Apollo 16). But Jim Lovell would have never commanded Apollo 13 had he not himself, as backup, swapped places with original Apollo 8 CMP Michael Collins when Collins suffered a herniated disk long before the flight. Had Collins stayed healthy and flown on 8, it's likely that he would have commanded 13, while Lovell would have been CMP on 11 and very likely commanded 17, and thus would have been the last man to walk on the moon. Eugene Cernan who had that honor, may have instead been the Lunar Module Pilot of 16, a position he turned down in hopes of securing the 17 command.

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