Fred Haise

Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. (pronounced 'Heis') (born November 14, 1933) is an engineer and former NASA astronaut. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon. Haise was born in Biloxi, Mississippi. He attended Biloxi High School and Perkinston Junior College (now Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College). He graduated with honors in aeronautical engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1959. He completed post-graduate courses at the ... more

Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. (pronounced 'Heis') (born November 14, 1933) is an engineer and former NASA astronaut. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon. Haise was born in Biloxi, Mississippi. He attended Biloxi High School and Perkinston Junior College (now Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College). He graduated with honors in aeronautical engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1959. He completed post-graduate courses at the USAF Aerospace Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in 1964 and the Harvard Business School PMD Program in 1972. He completed naval aviator training in 1954 and served as a United States Marine Corps fighter pilot. His NASA career began as an aeronautical research pilot at Lewis Research Center in 1959. 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... less