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Fred Wallace Haise Jr. (/ h eɪ z / HAYZ; [1] born November 14, 1933) is an American former NASA astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force, and a test pilot. He is one of 24 people to have flown to the Moon , having flown as Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 13 .
Apollo 13 crew members Jack Swigert, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise pose for a photo. Apollo 13 stands as one of NASA's most monumental and near-fatal space missions decades after the event.
Haise, Fullerton 51 min 12 s 5 min 34 s ALT-15: Free flight #4: October 12, 1977 278 mph (447 km/h) 22,400 ft 6,828 m Engle, Truly 67 min 48 s 2 min 34 s Tailcone off, lakebed landing ALT-16: Free flight #5: October 26, 1977 283 mph (455 km/h) 19,000 ft 5,791 m Haise, Fullerton 54 min 42 s 2 min 1 s Tailcone off, runway landing
Apollo 13 (April 11–17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing.The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) exploded two days into the mission, disabling its electrical and life-support system.
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Apollo 13 is a 1995 American docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris and Kathleen Quinlan.The screenplay by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission and is an adaptation of the 1994 book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.
While three astronauts (Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise) are still en route, an oxygen tank explodes, forcing NASA to cancel the mission to get the men home alive. Watch on prime video 5.
Fred Haise; A. Apollo 13; Apollo 13 (film) Approach and Landing Tests; The Astronaut Monument; N. NASA Astronaut Group 5 This page was last edited on 15 March 2020 ...