Fred Haise

Astronaut

1933 –

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Who is Fred Haise?

Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He is one of only 24 humans to have flown to the Moon, as Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 13. He was to have been the sixth human to land and walk on the Moon, but the mission had to be aborted due to a spacecraft failure. He went on to fly Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests before retiring from NASA in 1979.

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Born
Nov 14, 1933
Biloxi
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Harvard Business School
  • Biloxi High School
Lived in
  • Biloxi

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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