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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.
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.
Fred W. Haise, Jr. (Apollo 13 - USMC 1952–1956, later Captain, Oklahoma Air National Guard) Jack R. Lousma (Skylab 3 - Colonel, USMC, retired) Gerald P. Carr (Skylab 4 - Colonel, USMC, retired) Vance D. Brand (Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Command Module Pilot) - USMC 1953–1957, USMC Reserve, Air National Guard until 1966 (Marine rank not listed)
Fred W. Haise Jr. Biloxi, Mississippi, November 14, 1933 Haise joined the Naval Air Cadet program during the Korean War to avoid the draft. He qualified as a naval aviator in 1954, and elected to accept a commission in the USMC. He was separated from the USMC in September 1956, and entered the University of Oklahoma.
When Lovell was reassigned to the prime crew, Aldrin was moved to CMP, and Fred Haise was brought in as backup LMP. Armstrong would later command Apollo 11, with Aldrin as LMP and Collins as CMP. Haise served on the backup crew of Apollo 11 as LMP and flew on Apollo 13 as LMP. [21] [24]
When delays in the Shuttle's development prevented Columbia from being launched in time to rendezvous with Skylab in 1979, STS-2 Commander Fred W. Haise Jr. retired from NASA and Lousma was then moved up as Commander of STS-3. [2]
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