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Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. (pronounced 'Hayes') (born November 14, 1933) is a former NASA
NASA

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 astronaut
Astronaut

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. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon
List of Apollo astronauts

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.

Haise was born in Biloxi, Mississippi
Biloxi, Mississippi

Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, Mississippi, in the United States. The 2000 United States Census recorded the population as 50,644....
. He attended Biloxi High School
Biloxi High School

Biloxi High School is the only public high school located in the city of Biloxi, Mississippi, Mississippi. It has approximately 1017 students and 100 faculty....
 and Perkinston Junior College (now Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College consists of four campuses and four centers: the main campus, located in Perkinston, Mississippi, Mississippi; the Jackson County Campus, in Gautier, Mississippi; the Jefferson Davis Campus, in Gulfport, Mississippi; the Community Campus, a non-traditional campus without walls; the George County Center...
). He graduated with honors in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma

University of Oklahoma, abbreviated OU, is a coeducational public university research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma....
 in 1959. He completed post graduate courses in the USAF Aerospace Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base

Edwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located on the border of Kern County, California and Los Angeles County, California in the Antelope Valley....
 in 1964 and the Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School

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  in 1972.

He completed Naval flight training in 1954 and served as a United States Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps

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 fighter
Fighter aircraft

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 pilot.

His NASA
NASA

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 career began as an Aeronautical Research Pilot at Lewis Research Center in 1959.






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Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. (pronounced 'Hayes') (born November 14, 1933) is a former NASA
NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
 astronaut
Astronaut

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a List of human spaceflight programs to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon
List of Apollo astronauts

This is a list of all astronauts directly associated with NASA's Project Apollo. A total of thirty-eight astronauts flew in an Apollo spacecraft, twenty-nine of whom were part of the Apollo program, the rest being Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz astronauts....
.

Haise was born in Biloxi, Mississippi
Biloxi, Mississippi

Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, Mississippi, in the United States. The 2000 United States Census recorded the population as 50,644....
. He attended Biloxi High School
Biloxi High School

Biloxi High School is the only public high school located in the city of Biloxi, Mississippi, Mississippi. It has approximately 1017 students and 100 faculty....
 and Perkinston Junior College (now Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College consists of four campuses and four centers: the main campus, located in Perkinston, Mississippi, Mississippi; the Jackson County Campus, in Gautier, Mississippi; the Jefferson Davis Campus, in Gulfport, Mississippi; the Community Campus, a non-traditional campus without walls; the George County Center...
). He graduated with honors in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma

University of Oklahoma, abbreviated OU, is a coeducational public university research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma....
 in 1959. He completed post graduate courses in the USAF Aerospace Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base

Edwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located on the border of Kern County, California and Los Angeles County, California in the Antelope Valley....
 in 1964 and the Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School is a business school in the United States. It is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University.Founded in 1908, Harvard Business School started with 59 students....
  in 1972.

He completed Naval flight training in 1954 and served as a United States Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing Military power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to rapidly deliver Marine Air-Ground Task Force....
 fighter
Fighter aircraft

A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat with other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed primarily to attack ground targets by dropping bombs....
 pilot.

His NASA
NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
 career began as an Aeronautical Research Pilot at Lewis Research Center in 1959. Further assignments were held as a Research Pilot at the NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center
Dryden Flight Research Center

The Dryden Flight Research Center , located inside Edwards Air Force Base, is an aeronautical research center operated by NASA. On March 26, 1976 it was named in honor of the late Dr....
 in 1963 and as an astronaut at the Johnson Space Center in 1966. Haise was the first of the 1966 group
Astronaut Group 5

NASA's Astronaut Group 5 selected by NASA in April 1966. Of the Lunar Module Pilots that walked on the Moon, half came from Group 5. The group as a whole is roughly split between the half who List of Apollo astronauts and the other half who flew Skylab and Space Shuttle, providing the core of Shuttle Commanders early in that program....
 to be assigned to Apollo duties - ahead of some group 3 members. He served on the back-up crew for the Apollo 8
Apollo 8

Apollo 8 was the first manned space voyage to achieve a velocity sufficient to allow escape from the gravitational field of planet Earth; the first to escape from the gravitational field of another celestial body; and the first manned voyage to return to planet Earth from another celestial body....
, Apollo 11
Apollo 11

The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of Apollo program and the third human voyage to the Moon....
, and Apollo 16
Apollo 16

Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the Apollo program, the fifth mission to land on the Moon and the first to land in the highlands area....
 moon
Moon

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 missions. He flew as the Lunar Module Pilot on the aborted Apollo 13
Apollo 13

Apollo 13 was the third manned lunar-landing mission, part of Project Apollo under NASA in the United States. The crew members were Commander Jim Lovell, Command Module pilot Jack Swigert, and Lunar Module pilot Fred W....
 lunar mission in 1970. He was also scheduled as commander for the cancelled Apollo 19 mission. He later flew five flights as the Commander of the space shuttle
Space Shuttle

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System , is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions....
 Enterprise
Space Shuttle Enterprise

The Space Shuttle Enterprise was the first space shuttle built for NASA. It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield, and was therefore not capable of space operations; its purpose was to perform test flights in the atmosphere....
, in 1977, for the Approach and Landing Tests
Approach and Landing Tests

The Approach and Landing Tests were a series of taxiing and flight trials of the prototype Space Shuttle Orbiter Space Shuttle Enterprise to test the vehicle's flight characteristics both on its own and when mated to the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, prior to the operational debut of the shuttle system....
 Program at Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base

Edwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located on the border of Kern County, California and Los Angeles County, California in the Antelope Valley....
, and was selected to command the original STS-2 mission to rescue the Skylab
Skylab

Skylab was the first space station the United States launched into orbit, and the second space station ever visited by a human crew. The 100 ton space station was in Earth's orbit from 1973 to 1979, and it was visited by crews three times in 1973 and 1974....
 space station in 1979, but was cancelled due to the long delays in the Shuttle's development as well as the break-up of the Skylab in mid-1979.

Fred Haise is married to the former F. Patt Price of Rogers, Texas. He has four children from a previous marriage to the former Mary (Sissy) Grant of Biloxi, Mississippi: Mary M. (Margaret) born on January 25, 1956; Frederick T., born on May 13, 1958; Stephen W., born on June 30, 1961 and Thomas J., born on July 6, 1970.

Haise retired from NASA in June 1979, and became a manager with Grumman Aerospace Corporation, before retiring in 1996. In 1995, Haise was inducted into the Aerospace Walk of Honor
Aerospace Walk of Honor

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.

Haise on film

In 1995, Haise was portrayed by Bill Paxton
Bill Paxton

William Archibald Paxton is an American actor and film director. He gained in popularity after his Movie star roles in the movies Apollo 13 and Twister ....
 in the movie Apollo 13
Apollo 13 (film)

Apollo 13 is a 1995 in film film that dramatized the ill-fated Apollo 13 in 1970. The movie was adapted by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert from the book Lost Moon by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, and was directed by Ron Howard ....
. He was also portrayed by Adam Baldwin
Adam Baldwin

Adam Baldwin is an American actor, not related to the Baldwin brothers. He is known for his roles as Animal Mother in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, Ricky Linderman in My Bodyguard, Knowle Rohrer in The X-Files, and Marcus Hamilton in Joss Whedon's Angel ....
 in the mini-series From The Earth To The Moon.

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