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Film & TV
Known for
- Apollo 13: Survival — Self (archive footage)2024
- Apollo: The Forgotten Films — Self - Apollo Program Astronaut (voice)2019
- Apollo: Back to the Moon — Self2019
- Salute to Apollo: EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 20172017
- When We Left Earth — Himself2008
- National Geographic: Situation Critical — Self2007
- Apollo 13: The Inside Story — Self - Apollo 13 Astronaut2006
- Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 — Self - Apollo 13 Lunar Module Pilot1996
- Doomed Mission: The True Story of Apollo 13 — Self1995
- Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back — Himself1994
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Key facts
- Born
- Fred Wallace Haise Jr. , ( 1933-11-14 ) November 14, 1933 (age 92) , Biloxi, Mississippi , U.S.
- Education
- Perkinston Junior College ( AA ), University of Oklahoma ( BS )
- Spouse s
- Mary Griffin Grant ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1954 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1978 ) , Frances Price ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1979 ; died 2022 )
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom , NASA Distinguished Service Medal
- Rank
- Captain , U.S. Marine Corps (1954–1957), Captain , U.S. Air Force , (1957–1963)
- Time in space
- 5 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes
- Selection
- NASA Group 5 (1966)
- Missions
- Apollo 13 Approach and Landing Tests
- Retirement
- June 29, 1979
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- NASA Astronaut Group 5
- Given name
- Fred
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Biloxi
- Employer
- NASA
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Military branch
- United States Marine Corps
- Military rank
- captain
- Image
- Fred Haise GPN-2000-001166.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
Fred Wallace Haise Jr. (/heɪz/ HAYZ; born November 14, 1933) is an American former NASA astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force, and test pilot. He is one of the 24 Apollo astronauts to reach the Moon, having served as Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 13. He was to have been the sixth person to walk on the Moon, but the Apollo 13 landing was aborted en route. Haise flew five Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests in 1977. He retired from NASA in 1979. He is the last surviving crew member of Apollo 13 and the last surviving Apollo astronaut that reached the Moon without landing.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fred Haise” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.