FRED HAISE - Apollo 13 Astronaut and Space Shuttle Commander

Fred W. Haise

Houston...we had a problem!
"Apollo 13 Astronaut & Space Shuttle Commander"

About Fred W. Haise
Fred W. Haise recently retired as President of Northrop Grumman Technical Services (GTS.) He joined Grumman in 1979 as Vice President, Space Programs, and had succeeding assignments as President of GTS in 1983 and President of the Space Station Program Support Division in 1987.

Mr. Haise was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on November 14, 1933. He graduated with honors in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1959. He completed post graduate courses in the USAF Aerospace Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in 1964 and the Harvard Business School PMD Program in 1972. Mr. Haise completed U. S. Navy flight training in 1954 and served as a U.S. Marine Corps Fighter Pilot in VMF-533 and VMF-114. He had further assignments as a Tactics and All-Weather Flight Instructor at NAS Kingsville in ATU-100 and ATU-102. Mr. Haise was recalled into the USAF in 1961 with the 164^th TAC Fighter Squadron. He has logged 9,100 hours of flying time in over 80 types.

A 20-Year NASA career was begun as an Aeronautical Research Pilot at Lewis Research Center in 1959. Further assignments were held as a Research Pilot at the NASA Flight Research Center in 1963 and as an Astronaut at the Johnson Space Center in 1966. Mr. Haise served as back-up crew for the Apollo 8, 11, and 16 missions. He also flew as the Lunar Module Pilot on the aborted Apollo 13 lunar mission 1970 which was dramatized in the Hollywood movie "Apollo 13." He flew five flights as the Commander of the Space Shuttle Enterprise in 1977 for the Approach and Landing Test Program at Edwards Air Force Base.

Among his honors are the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Haley Astronautics Award, the General Thomas D. White Space Trophy, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal , the NASA Exceptional Service Award, the NASA Special Achievement Award , and most recently, the Aerospace Walk of Honor.

He is an Associate Fellow of the AAIA, Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, the American Astronautical Society. Mr. Haise is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Gamma Tau, and Phi Theta Kappa honor societies.

Speech Topic:
Houston.. We Had a Problem; Miracles Accomplished through Training, Discipline, and Teamwork

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