John Aaron was born in Wellington, Texas and grew up in rural Western Oklahoma near Vinson in Booger Hollow, one of the youngest in a family of eight children.
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A character based on John Aaron was portrayed by actor Loren Dean in the 1995 film Apollo 13.
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He was interviewed in the PBS documentary Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back, and in two History Channel documentaries about Mission Control, Failure Is Not an Option and Beyond the Moon: Failure Is Not an Option 2.
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John Aaron - NASA engineer (born here and reared in Oklahoma) who played an important role in the Apollo 12 mission