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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. He was slated to become the 6th person to walk on ...
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.
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)
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.
Apollo 16's backup crew consisted of Fred W. Haise Jr. (commander, who had flown on Apollo 13), Stuart A. Roosa (CMP, who had flown on Apollo 14) and Edgar D. Mitchell (LMP, also Apollo 14). [20]
Fred W. Haise Jr. The backup crew assignment of Neil Armstrong as Commander, Lovell as CMP, and Buzz Aldrin as LMP for the third crewed Apollo flight was officially announced at the same time as the prime crew. [ 18 ]
Fred W. Haise Jr. – Flew as Lunar Module Pilot on the unsuccessful Apollo 13. Haise was selected to command the Apollo 19 lunar landing, which was canceled. Haise would later be named commander of the first crew for the Space Shuttle's Approach and Landing Tests using the prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise.
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.