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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, then 2014 Armstrong Flight Research Center

• p47 after 6mo. rental, bought home at 44561 Leatherwood Ave Lancaster

• p49 NASA M2-F1 lifting body / Many aircraft, many flights per month

• p52 1964 Aerospace Research Pilot School (?) with Don Mallick

• p53-55 visits European flight centers with Chuck Yeager, lacking passport
• p55 Edwards, testing F10x series aircraft

• p56-7 mentions Manned Orbiting Laboratory Program

• p58 NASAAn evaluation of the handling qualities of seven general-aviation aircraft

• p59 Testing Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche damaging tail flutter

• p60 1966 Feb 8 Aerospace Medical Division Brookes AFB San Antonio

• p62 1966 Apr 24 to NASA JSC, Original 19 astronauts

• p63 Training: PR, Grand Canyon, Katmai National Park, Iceland, Mauna Loa/Kea, more volcanic areas

• p65-8 survival training

• p68-77 LM development and training at Grumman Bethpage Long Island

• p79 1967 June 22 First LM delivered for first test flight on S-IB Saturn

• p82 LM drop tests, 6.3 Gs forwards, 3 Gs sideways, 6 Gs vertically
• p84 Apollo 9 (later 8, circumlunar CSM only) backup crew with Armstrong and Aldrin
• p85 CSM-104 testing at North American plant
• p87 CM simulator 500 credible (survivable) failures, 300 for LM simulator
• p89 centrifuge simulation, steeper reentry up to 18 Gs. p90 practiced pad escape

• p90 member of Günter Wendt's closeout crew

• p91 in Apollo 8 CM lower equipment bay, helping during crew ingress
• p92 watched liftoff in flame suit (close? where?) // next assignment, backup crew for Apollo 11 with Anders and Lovell

• p94 at dinner, Neal and Buzz argue about REFSMMAT Reference to Stable Member Matrix, Mike Collins peacemaker

• p94 Also closeout crew for Apollo 11, Guenter Wendt "der Fuhrer of der Launch Pad", p95 given fish by Collins

• p97 Charlie Duke, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise as CapCom

• p99 Apollo 13 Jim Lovell, Ken Mattingly Fred Haise prime crew. Backup crew Young, Swigert, and Duke

• p100 Lee Silver Caltech for geology field training

• p101 Mission patch designed by Jim Lovell and New York artist Lumen Winter (not Winters)

  • I have an embroidered Apollo 13 mission patch (manufactured 2009 December) attached to my computer
    • the embroidered "Earth and swooping trajectory" looks like a small mushroom, or a penis.
    • I hope the flown mission patches were better
• p103 Ken "never measles" Mattingly replaced by Jack Swigert
  • Command module Odyssey, Lunar Module Aquarius, not mentioned in index
• p105 launch, below 4.5 gees . . p106, 3m20s, launch escape tower and cover jettisoned
• p106 100 mile circular orbital insertion at 12m29s
• p107 Third stage ignition for TLI, single J-2 burning for 6 minutes
  • S-IVB targeted at Moon to tickle Apollo 11/12 seismometers
  • 3.7 second firing of service propulsion system (SPS) engine targeting Moon rather than free return to Earth
• p109 loud bang
• p111 crazy warning lights and sensors, g levels 1.17x, 0.15 y and z
• p114 LM power level reduced to 18 amps, usually 65A during powered descent ... plenty of excess oxygen
• p116 Kludge adapting CM Lithium Hyroxide cylinders to LM; duct tape, checklist covers, and socks