Fred Haise, born November 14, 1933 in Biloxi, Mississippi, was an astronaut on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission. After high school, he served in the US Marines as a fighter pilot. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degreee in aeronautical engineering in 1959 before becoming an astronaut.
Haise was scheduled to be the sixth human to walk on the moon during the Apollo 13 mission behind Jim Lovell, who was to be the fifth. Jack Swigert was the Command Module Pilot. Of course, we all know they didn't get to land on the moon but they returned to Earth safely. Bill Paxton played Haise in the movie Apollo 13.
He was backup for the Apollo 16 mission and was slated for the Apollo 19 mission, but the latter was cancelled due to budget cuts. Haise left NASA in 1979.
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