Fred Haise

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Fred Wallace Haise Jr. is an American former NASA astronaut, fighter pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Air Force and test pilot. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, having flown as Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 13. He was to have been the sixth person to land and walk on the Moon, but the Apollo 13 mission was aborted before lunar landing. He went on to fly Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests in 1977, and retired from NASA in 1979.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Born in

Biloxi

Education

Harvard Business School; Harvard University; U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School; University of Oklahoma; Biloxi High School; Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

Awards

National Aviation Hall of Fame; International Space Hall of Fame; NASA Distinguished Service Medal; Presidential Medal of Freedom; Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"; and 1 more

From Wikidata.

• Saturn V | Apollo 13Lunar Module Pilot · Success · with Jack Swigert, Jim LovellApril 11, 1970 · 19:13 UTC