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  Fred Haise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Further assignments were held as a Research Pilot at the NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in 1963 and as an astronaut at the Johnson Space Center in 1966.
Haise was the first of the 1966 group to be assigned to Apollo duties - ahead of some group 3 members.
Fred Haise then married the former F. Patt Price of Rogers, Texas and together they had four children.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fred_Haise   (363 words)

  
 Transcript of Live Chat with Apollo 13 Astronaut Fred Haise
Fred Haise: When I got to the point of understanding we had lost one oxygen tank, my primary emotion was one of great disappointment because I knew we had lost the landing mission.
Fred Haise: I was assigned to fly the third orbital flight of the shuttle, but I knew of the tile problems that would significantly delay flight.
Fred Haise: The most important thing is to assure that you are working through your education toward a career that one enjoys and matches their God-given talent.
www.space.com /peopleinterviews/fred_haise_chat.html   (3499 words)

  
 Apollo 13 Image Library
Fred Haise carries mock-ups of the ALSEP packages while in a harness attached to the arm of a large centrifuge.
Fred Haise extracts the fuel element for the SNAP-26 RTG from its cask mounted on the side of the LM.
Fred Haise is on the left side of the raft with Jack Swigert partly hidden beyond him.
history.nasa.gov /alsj/a13/images13.html   (3894 words)

  
 Fred Haise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Haise received his Bachelor’s degree in science with honors in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.
Haise's experience as a test pilot, fighter pilot and a flight instructor prepared him to join 19 astronauts selected by NASA in 1966.
Haise later joined the team of astronauts who helped develop and test the Space Shuttle.
www2.nemcc.edu /mspeople/fred_haise.htm   (100 words)

  
 Haise, Fred Wallace, Jr. (1933-)
Haise received a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1959 and joined the Navy in 1962, subsequently serving as a fighter pilot in the Oklahoma National Guard.
Haise was one of 19 selected by NASA in its fifth class of astronauts in April 1966.
Haise retired from NASA in June 1979 and held several managerial positions with Grumman Aerospace Corporation before retiring in 1996.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/H/Haise.html   (283 words)

  
 North Platte Telegraph - Apollo 13 astronaut tells his harrowing story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Haise says he didn't grow up dreaming to be an astronaut or of flying to the moon.
Haise was named to the lunar module pilot position on the Apollo 13 crew that included Commander Jim Lovell and Command Module pilot Jack Swigert.
Haise smiles ruefully when he says that the one problem Apollo 13 encountered was one they hadn't planned for, one that had no contingency plan.
www.nptelegraph.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=15410912&BRD=377&PAG=461&dept_id=531813&rfi=6   (739 words)

  
 Apollo 13 - A Successful Failure
Experience: Haise was a research pilot at the NASA Flight Research Center at Edward's Air Force Base, California, before coming to Houston and the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center; and from September 1959 to March 1963, he was a research pilot at the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
Haise was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966.
Haise was commander of one of the two 2-man crews who piloted space shuttle approach and landing test (ALT) flights during the period of June through October 1977.
liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov /Academy/History/APOLLO-13/HAISE.HTML   (565 words)

  
 Fred Haise
Fred Haise was an American astronaut who was born on November 13, 1933, in Mississippi.
In 1970, Haise flew aboard the unlucky Apollo 13.
This mission was to have landed on the moon, but an explosion in the command module forced Haise and crewmates to endure the arduous task of making it back to Earth alive.
www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/people/astronauts/haise.html   (175 words)

  
 Cold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fred Haise was probably the most affected by the temperature, because he was the one that had a fever during the mission.
In the Fred Haise interview, he stated that the reason the movie script was changed from what the actual communications were was because Hollywood did not believe that the astronauts sounded human enough.
Although Fred Haise did not talk directly about the cold, we can assume that he shares a similar view as the book, because he was the one that had the fever and was affected by the cold.
www.gettysburg.edu /~folejo01/Cold.html   (1353 words)

  
 Biography of Fred W. Haise, Jr. - Apollo Astronaut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Haise next served as Backup Spacecraft Commander for the Apollo 16 mission, and would have commanded the Apollo 19 lunar landing, but that mission was canceled.
Haise commanded Free Flights 1,3, and 5 and was the Backup Commander for Free Flights 2 and 4.
In March 1978, Haise was assigned to command the third planned shuttle orbital flight test that was scheduled to rendezvous with the Skylab station then in orbit.
www.flash.net /~imagine5/bios/Haise.html   (934 words)

  
 Who Are the Apollo 13 Astronauts?
Haise served on the support crew for the first flight of the lunar module, Apollo 9, until he was promoted to become the backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 8.
Haise suffered a serious accident in 1973 while piloting a replica of a Japanese World War 2 fighter plane for the Confederate Air Force.
Haise commanded one of the two two-man crews who piloted the first space shuttle orbiter, Enterprise, in approach and landing test (ALT) flights at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center during the period June through October 1977.
www.space.com /news/spacehistory/apollo13_bios_000411.html   (1202 words)

  
 Astronaut Scholarship Foundation: Fred W. Haise, Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Haise was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on November 14, 1933.
Lovell and Haise were to have explored the moon's Fra Mauro highlands in April 1970, but they never made it there.
Fred Haise was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on October 4, 1997.
www.astronautscholarship.org /haise.html   (426 words)

  
 Apollo 13 Astronaut at Virginia Tech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fred Haise, portrayed by actor Bill Paxton in the film, Apollo 13, served as the lunar module pilot during the ill-fated 1970 space mission.
Haise began his 20-year NASA career as an aeronautical research pilot at Lewis Research Center in 1959.
Haise is an associate fellow of the AAIA, fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, and the American Astronautical Society.
www.vtnews.vt.edu /archives/1997/97165.html   (576 words)

  
 Astronaut Bio: Fred Wallace Haise, Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Haise was a research pilot at the NASA Flight Research Center at Edwards, California, before coming to Houston and the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center; and from September 1959 to March 1963, he was a research pilot at the NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
From March 1957 to September 1959, Haise was a fighter interceptor pilot with the 185th Fighter Interceptor Squadron in the Oklahoma Air National Guard.
Haise and fellow crewmen, James A. Lovell (spacecraft commander) and John L. Swigert (command module pilot), working closely with Houston ground controllers, converted their lunar module Aquarius into an effective lifeboat.
vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov /er/seh/haise.htm   (611 words)

  
 Signed and Historical Photographs of Apollo Astronaut Fred Haise
Fred Haise was backup commander for Apollo 16 which was sitting on the pad that day.
An image of lunar module pilot (LMP) Fred Haise during a live television transmission from the Apollo 13 command module while enroute to the moon is being projected on the large screen display (LSD) at the manned spaceflight center in Houston on the evening of April 13, 1970.
I took the photogaaph at left of the Enterprise and Fred Haise standing in front of its nose wearing a fancy tie depicting a space shuttle riding aloft on a bottle of Tobasco sauce.
members.fortunecity.com /starpoints/fredhaise   (614 words)

  
 Haise
BIRTHPLACE AND DATE: Haise was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on November 14, 1933.
Haise was selected by NASA as an astronaut in April 1966.
Lovell and Haise were to have explored the moon's Fra Mauro highlands in April 1970, but en route, an oxygen tank in the Service Module exploded, resulting in loss of all Command Module oxygen and electric power.
www.astronautix.com /astros/haise.htm   (3126 words)

  
 health   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fred Haise describes in his interview how it became very difficult for him and the crew to breathe.
Fred Haise mentioned in his interview that he was very sick on the flight.
Haise stated that he was fatigued as well as the rest of the crew.
www.gettysburg.edu /~howeje02/fys/health-haisebook.htm   (232 words)

  
 Fred Haise
Fred Haise was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966.
He served as backup lunar module pilot for the Apollo 8 and 11 missions, and backup spacecraft commander for the Apollo 16 mission.
Fred Haise was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 13 and has logged 142 hours and 54 minutes in space.
www.markowens.co.uk /fred_haise.htm   (74 words)

  
 Apollo 13 (1995) - Screenplays for You - free movie scripts and screenplays
And astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert are making their way through the tunnels of the Lunar Module using it as a lifeboat, so they'll have electrical power for their radios on the Command Module.
When Fred Haise was growing up in Biloxi, he may have looked ahead to a fine family but he never dreamt of flying.
Fred Haise was going back to the Moon on Apollo 18, but his mission was canceled because of the budget cuts, he never flew in space again.
sfy.ru /sfy.html?script=apollo13   (17015 words)

  
 Apollo 13 Screen Snaps...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Haise (Paxton) and Lovell struggle with the jury-rigged co2 filter.
Haise grips a hand rail while preping for the corridor burn.
Apollo 13 shows Haise wearing a moonwatch on both wrists, and Swigert using a moonwatch to time the critical re-entry corridor correction burn...
home.xnet.com /~cmaddox/nasa/a13_snaps.html   (207 words)

  
 FRED HAISE "Apollo 13 Astronaut and Space Shuttle Commander"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fred W. Haise recently retired as President of Northrop Grumman Technical Services (GTS.) He joined Grumman in 1979 as Vice President, Space Programs, and had succeeding assignments as President of GTS in 1983 and President of the Space Station Program Support Division in 1987.
Haise served as back-up crew for the Apollo 8, 11, and 16 missions.
Haise is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Gamma Tau, and Phi Theta Kappa honor societies.
www.sterlingspeakers.com /haise.htm   (422 words)

  
 Apollo 13 - Ex Luna, Scientia - the Mission and the Movie: Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fred Haise had a fortnight of antibiotic treatment after the mission; the condition would have become serious if the mission had continued for a further 24 hours.
Fred and Mary Haise are credited with too many children (and the wrong ages) for 1970; they had three and one on the way, not five.
The Haise children are: Mary (who was 14 at the time of Apollo 13); Fred (who was 11); Stephen (8) and Thomas, who was born on 6 July 1970 - so Mary did not have 'one month to go', as stated on April 11 in the film.
www.space.gs /apollo13.html   (2442 words)

  
 The Cold War & Space Race
Lovell and Haise were the two astronauts selected to walk on the Moon.
Fred Haise said that the temperature inside the lunar module dipped to 32 degrees F. He also said that the body heat of the three astronauts "helped keep you warm."
Lovell and Haise were unable to wear their full lunar suits due to limited room.
www.vibrationdata.com /space/Apollo13.htm   (490 words)

  
 The Bryan-College Station Eagle> Region & State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Haise, one of the famed three astronauts who flew in the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in 1970, was the featured speaker for the opening of the BEST — Boosting Engineering, Science and Technologies — competition.
Haise said it wasn’t until he joined the Naval Aviation Cadet program at the onset of the Korean War that he discovered his love for flying.
Haise’s speech kicked off the yearly BEST event, which has drawn 60 teams of students from seven states to compete at Reed Arena in a game that calls for robots to perform specified tasks.
www.theeagle.com /region/localregional/112302appolospeaker.htm   (379 words)

  
 35th Anniversary of Apollo XI Celebration
Fred Haise and Joe Gavin view the Lunar Module (LM13) on display at the Cradle of Aviation.
Haise, who was a member of the Apollo 11 backup crew, praised Grumman for its contribution and said of the lunar module, "there was nothing like it built before, nothing like it ever since."
Haise eventually flew on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission that experienced an oxygen tank explosion that damaged the spacecraft.
www.cradleofaviation.org /news/35th.html   (268 words)

  
 SpaceArchive.net | ECN-1203 - Research pilot Fred Haise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
After becoming an astronaut, Haise served as a backup crewmember for the Apollo 8, 11, and 16 missions.
In 1977, he was the commander of three free flights of the Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise when it flew its Approach and Landing Tests at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Meanwhile, from April 1973 to January 1976, Haise served as the Technical Assistant to the Manager of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Project.
Haise was born in Biloxi, Miss., on November 14, 1933.
www.spacearchive.net /pages/ECN-1203.html   (755 words)

  
 EBRIEFCASE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Haise, who served as the lunar module pilot during the ill-fated Apollo 13 space mission in 1970, was an integral part of the expert crew that averted catastrophe and brought the team safely back home.
Haise was chosen to speak because of his grace and presence of mind under incredible pressure—qualities UH Law
The UH Law Center Commencement was held on May 10 in Hofheinz Pavilion, followed by a reception at the Yeoman Fieldhouse, in the Athletic/Alumni Center.
www.law.uh.edu /alumni/ebriefcase/02may/Haise.htm   (244 words)

  
 APOLLOSPACE: Astronaut Autographs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fred Haise signed Space Shots trading card of Astronaut Memorial - in excellent condition, light feathering of mission number.
Fred Haise inscribed signed color 8x10 NASA photograph of Haise posing in his white space suit.
Fred Haise signed BW photograph of Haise suited up in fine condition.
www.apollospace.com /autographs/autographs3.htm   (662 words)

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