Fred Haise Biography
Fred Haise (Fred Wallace Haise Jr.) is a former American astronaut of NASA, a fighter pilot with the United States. The U.S. and Marine Corps Air Force and pilot testing. He is one of only 24 people who flew to the Moon when he flew on Apollo 13 as the Lunar Module Pilot. He was supposed to be the sixth person to land and walk on the Moon, but before lunar landing, the Apollo 13 mission was aborted. In 1977, he continued to fly Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests and in 1979 retired from NASA.
Fred Haise Age
Haise was born on November 14, 1933, in Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S. He is 85 years old as of November 2018.
Fred Haise Family
Haise was born and raised by his parents Fred Haise Sr. and Lucille Blacksher Haise in Biloxi, Mississippi. He grew up alongside his two sisters Brenda Johnston and Eydie Burnett.
Fred Haise Wife and Children
With his first wife, Mary Griffin Grant, who he married in 1954 and divorced in 1978, he has four grown children: Mary M. Frederick T. (born January 25, 1956). Stephen W. (born May 13, 1958). (30 June 1961), Thomas J. (Born in 1970 on July 6). He married the former F, his current wife. In 1979, Patt Price.
Fred Haise Education and Early Life
Haise attended Biloxi High School, from which he graduated in 1950, and Perkinston Junior College was awarded an Associate of Arts degree in 1952 with original goals of a career in journalism. He was a Boy Scout who earned the rank of Star Scout. Eligible for the draft and he joined the Naval Aviation Cadet (NAVCAD) training program despite being apprehensive about flying. From 1952 to 1954, Haise was trained in Naval Aviator and served as a U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot from March 1954 to September 1956 at MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina. Haise has accumulated flying time of 9,300 hours, including 6,200 hours in jets.
Haise returned to school after his military service and graduated with Honors in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1959, serving as a fighter interceptor pilot with the 185th Fighter Interceptor Squadron simultaneously in the Oklahoma Air National Guard. He then worked for the newly created NASA, first as a research pilot at the Lewis Research Center near Cleveland. His Air National Guard unit was appointed during the 1961 Berlin Crisis and served ten months as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force. He was a tactical fighter pilot and chief of the 164th Standardization-Evaluation Flight of the 164th Tactical Fighter Squadron at the Mansfield Lahm Air National Guard Base, Ohio. Haise completed a post-graduate course in the Mansfield Lahm National Guard Base.
Fred Haise Career
NASA
Haise was one of 19 new astronauts selected for NASA Astronaut Group 5 in 1966. As a civilian research pilot, he had already worked with NASA for several years. He was the first astronaut in his class to be assigned to a mission, serving both Apollo 8 and Apollo 11 as backup Lunar Module Pilot.
Apollo 13
Haise flew on the aborted Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970 as the Lunar Module Pilot. Because of this mission’s free return trajectory, Haise, Jim Lovell, and Jack Swigert, the other two astronauts on Apollo 13, are likely to hold records for the farthest distance from the Earth ever traveled by people. Haise developed an infection of the urinary tract and later kidney infections during this flight. For most of the trip, this caused him to be in pain.
During Apollo 13 behind Lovell, who was to be fifth, Haise was scheduled to become the sixth human to walk on the Moon. Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell finally became the fifth and sixth on Apollo 14, respectively, which finished the Fra Mauro formation mission of Apollo 13.
Haise remained in the rotation of the astronaut and served as the Commander of Apollo 16’s backup mission. Although there was no formal selection, Haise, with William R. Pogue as Command Module Pilot and Gerald P. Carr as Lunar Module Pilot, was expected to command Apollo 19. However, due to budget cuts, the mission was cancelled in late 1970.
Space Shuttle approach and landing tests
Haise moved to the Space Shuttle program after completing his backup assignment on Apollo 16. He took part in the Approach and Landing Tests of the program at Edwards Air Force Base in 1977. Apart from C. After being released from the Shuttle Carrier aircraft, Gordon Fullerton as Pilot, Haise as Commander piloted the Space Shuttle Enterprise on free flight to three successful landings. These tests successfully verified the flight characteristics of the shuttle, a significant step towards the program’s overall success.
Originally, Haise was planned to command the second Space Shuttle mission, which would have delivered a booster module to boost the Skylab space station to a higher orbit, preserving it for future use. However, delays in the development of the Shuttle program as well as an unexpected increase in the orbital decline of Skylab led to the abandonment of the mission. In July 1979, when Skylab entered the Earth’s atmosphere, the space shuttle was not launched until April 1981.
In June 1979, Haise left NASA for Grumman Aerospace Corporation to become a test pilot and executive, where he remained until he retired in 1996.
Fred Haise Awards
- Naval Aviator insignia
- Air Force Senior Aviator Badge
- Presidential Medal of Freedom
- NASA Distinguished Service Medal
- NASA Exceptional Service Medal
- National Defense Service Medal with one star
- Air Force Longevity Service Award
- Armed Forces Reserve Medal
- AIAA Haley Astronautics Award for 1971
- American Astronautical Society Flight Achievement Awards for 1970 and 1977
- City of New York Gold Medal in 1970
- City of Houston Medal for Valor in 1970
- Jeff Davis Award (1970)
- Mississippi Distinguished Civilian Service Medal (1970)
- American Defense Ribbon
- SETP’s Ray E. Tenhoff Award for 1966
- A. B. Honts Trophy as the outstanding graduate of Class 64A from the Aerospace Research Pilot School in 1964
- JSC Special Achievement Award (1978)
- Soaring Society of America’s Certificate of Achievement Award (1978)
- General Thomas D. White USAF Space Trophy for 1977
- ETP’s Iven C. Kincheloe Award (1978)
- Air Force Association’s David C. Schilling Award (1978)
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