29 Facts About Fred Haise

Fred Haise is one of 24 people to have flown to the Moon, having flown as Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 13.

Fred Haise was slated to become the 6th person to walk on the Moon, but the Apollo 13 landing mission was aborted en route.

Fred Haise has a younger sister who was born in 1941.

Fred Haise attended Perkinston Junior College with a scholarship for journalism, and played on the baseball team.

Fred Haise graduated in 1952, and joined the Naval Aviation Cadet Program.

Fred Haise went to ground school at NAS Pensacola, and then moved to NAS Whiting Field in 1952.

Fred Haise trained in the SNJ and F6F Hellcat, and completed his flight training in 1954.

Fred Haise served as a US Marine Corps fighter pilot, with VMF-533, then VMF-114 on the F2H-4 Banshee and F9F-8 Cougar at MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina, from March 1954 to September 1956.

Fred Haise served as a tactics and all-weather flight instructor in the US Navy Advanced Training Command at NAS Kingsville, Texas.

Fred Haise has accumulated 9,300 hours flying time, including 6,200 hours in jets.

Fred Haise then worked for the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration, first as a research pilot at the Lewis Research Center near Cleveland.

Fred Haise was a tactical fighter pilot and chief of the 164th Standardization-Evaluation Flight of the 164th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Mansfield Lahm Air National Guard Base, Ohio, flying the F-84F.

Fred Haise completed post-graduate courses at the US Air Force Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California in 1964, and attended the six-week Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program in 1972.

In 1966, Fred Haise was one of 19 astronauts selected for NASA Astronaut Group 5.

Fred Haise had already worked with NASA for several years as a civilian research pilot.

Fred Haise was the first astronaut in his group to be assigned to a mission, serving as backup Lunar Module Pilot for both Apollo 8 and Apollo 11.

Fred Haise flew as Lunar Module Pilot on the aborted Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970.

Fred Haise was slated to become the 6th human to walk on the Moon during Apollo 13 behind Lovell, who was to be 5th.

In June 1979, Fred Haise left NASA to become a test pilot and executive with Grumman Aerospace Corporation, where he remained until retiring in 1996.

Fred Haise was the only one of the four astronauts who conducted the Enterprise landing tests not to fly in space on the Shuttle.

Fred Haise has four children with his first wife Mary Griffin Grant, whom he married on June 4,1954, and divorced on July 21,1978.

Fred Haise married Frances Patt Price, on January 9,1979.

In 2022, Fred Haise published his autobiography, Never Panic Early, about his life and experiences in the Apollo program.

Fred Haise is a fellow of the American Astronautical Society and the Society of Experimental Test Pilots ; member, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Gamma Tau, and Phi Theta Kappa; and honorary member, National WWII Glider Pilots Association.

Fred Haise received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, NASA Distinguished Service Medal, and NASA Exceptional Service Medal.

Fred Haise was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Aerospace Walk of Honor in 1995.

Fred Haise was one of 24 Apollo astronauts inducted into the US Astronaut Hall of Fame on October 4,1997.

Fred Haise was present at the ceremony and had his handprints set in concrete at the statue's base prior to its unveiling.

In September 2023, Fred Haise was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio.