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Fred Haise
 
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Fred Haise |
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Born on: |
13 Nov 1933 |
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Join NASA in: |
4 Apr 1966 |
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Current status: |
Retired 29 Jun 1979 |
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Spaceflight |
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Date |
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Apollo 13 |
LMP |
11.04. - 17.04.1970 |
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Spaceflight experience: |
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.
Haise was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 13 (April
11-17, 1970) and has logged 142 hours and 54 minutes in
space.
From April 1973 to January 1976, he was technical
assistant to the Manager of the Space Shuttle Orbiter
Project. He was commander of one of the two 2-man crews
who piloted space shuttle approach and landing test (ALT)
flights during the period June through October 1977. This
series of critical orbiter flight tests involved initially
Boeing 747/orbiter captive-active flights, followed by
air-launched, unpowered glide, approach, and landing tests
(free flights). There were 3 captive mated tests with the
orbiter "Enterprise" carried atop the Boeing 747 carrier
aircraft, allowing inflight low-altitude and low-speed
test and checkout of flight control systems and orbiter
controls, and 5 free flights which permitted extensive
evaluations of the orbiter's subsonic flying qualities and
performance characteristics during separation, up and away
flight, flare, landing, and rollout--providing valuable
real-time data duplicating the last few minutes of an
operational shuttle mission.
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