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Never Panic Early

An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey

Fred Haise with Bill Moore 2022

Tigard Library - B Haise F

• p01-12: Biloxi MS birth to HS
• p13 Perkinston Junior College
• p16 1952 Naval Aviation Cadet at NAS Pensacola FL

• p18 First flight on SNJ, NAS Whiting near Milton FL

• p20 Solo on 20th flight, crosswind practice at Bagdad airfield photo

• p26 Navy wings 1954 / p27 Training Lockheed "TV-2" (actually T2V)

• p28 Deploy MCAS Cherry Point, Douglas F2H-4 Banshee, p29 1954 married hs girlfriend Mary Griffith Grant

• p30 1st never panic early: flameout over Atlantic, dive and roll, recovered and landed at Tamiami Airport

• p31 towed through Miami to Miami International Airport

• p32 First supersonic flight, Mach 1.2 diving an F-9 Cougar

• p35 1956 22yo, 1734 flight hours, matriculates U. Oklahoma, attached to Air National Guard

• p36 Marines to Air Force, P-80 Shooting Star then supersonic F-86 Sabrejet

• p39 1959 Sep 14, hired by NASA Lewis (now Glenn) in Cleveland ... Rocket engine test at Rocky River Creek(?)

• p42 1960 started Lewis zero-G flight program, used AJ-2 Savage

• p43 Free piston oil reservoirs for zero-G p44 22 to 27 sec zero-G

• p44 D-3380 Use of aircraft for zero-gravity environment

• p45 Stationed at NASA Lewis. Urgent night airdrop of pyros for Aerobee launch scheduled the next morning.

• p46 1962 transfers to Edwards AFB, "Armstrong" (sic) Flight Research Center

  • er no, was NASA Flight Research Center after 1959

  • 1976 NASA Ames Dryden 2014 Armstrong Flight Research Center
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