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Fred Haise
American astronaut (born 1933)
"Fred Hayes" redirects here. Not to be confused with Alfred Hayes (disambiguation).
Fred Wallace Haise Jr. (HAYZ;[1] born November 14, 1933) is an American former NASAastronaut, engineer, fighter pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force, and a test pilot. He is one of 24 people known 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 the Moon, but the Apollo 13 landing mission was aborted en route.
Haise went on to fly five Space ShuttleApproach and Landing Tests in 1977,[2] before retiring from NASA in 1979.[3]
Early life
[edit]Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. was born on November 14, 1933, and raised in Biloxi, Mississippi, to Fred Wallace Haise (1903–1960) and Lucille (née Blacksher) Haise (1913–2005).[4]: 1 [5] He has a younger sister who was born in 1941.[4]: 6 After the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, his father enlisted in the U.S. Navy at the age of 38, and the Haise family moved to Chicago.[4]: 8 The family then moved to Key West, Florida, until his father's ship, YMS-84, deployed to the South Pacif
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Fred Haise: NASA astronaut and Apollo 13 crewmember
Fred Haise is a former U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps pilot and NASA astronaut most famous for his role as the lunar module pilot for the nearly-catastrophic Apollo 13 mission. Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third moon-landing mission, but an explosion in the command module forced the astronauts to abandon their dreams of visiting the moon and instead focus on making it back to Earth alive.
Haise, an ex-fighter pilot, was selected for NASA's astronaut program in 1966 and served as the backup lunar module pilot for the Apollo 8 and Apollo 11 missions. Apollo 13 was his only trip to space.
After Apollo, Haise played a key role in NASA's space shuttle program before resigning from the agency in 1979. He then became vice president of space programs at Grumman Aerospace Corp. — the company that built the lunar module for the Apollo missions. Now retired, Haise lives in Texas and is a passionate advocate for science education.
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A journalist with a hidden talent
Haise was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on Nov. 14, 1933. As a teenager, Haise wanted to become a journalist and had no thoughts of becoming a pilot. In hi
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| Mission type | Crewed lunar touchdown attempt (H) |
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| Operator | NASA |
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| SATCAT no. | 4371[1] |
| Mission duration | 5 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes, 41 seconds |
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| Launch mass | 44,069 kg (CSM: 28,881 kg;[3] LM: 15,188 kg)[4] |
| Landing mass | 5,050 kilograms (11,133 lb) |
| Crew size | 3 |
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| Launch date | April 11, 1970, 19:13:00 (1970-04-11UTC19:13Z) UTC[6] |
| Rocket | Saturn V SA-508 |
| Launch site | Kennedy LC-39A |
| Recovered by | USS Iwo Jima |
| Landing date | April 17, 1970, 18:07:41 (1970-04-17UTC18:07:42Z) UTC |
| Landing site | South Comforting Ocean 21°38′24″S165°21′42″W / 21.64000°S 165.36167°W / -21.64000; -165.36167 (Apollo 13 splashdown) |
| Closest approach | April 15, 1970, 00:21:00 UTC |
| Distance | 254 kilometers (137
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