Fred Haise
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"Fred Wallace Haise, Jr." is an American aeronautical engineer, former test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He is one of only List of Apollo astronauts#Apollo astronauts who flew to the Moon without landing/24 humans to have flown to the Moon, as Apollo Lunar Module/Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 13. He was to have been the sixth human to land and walk on the Moon, but the mission had to be aborted due to a spacecraft failure. He went on to fly Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests in 1977, and retired from NASA in 1979.

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We just kept putting off the worry as we focused on the next problem and how to solve it.

I was lucky to share in those.

They're what got us home from the space mission. They're why I'm able to be here today.

Knowing that you were going to fly to the moon, walk on the moon, defies description.

Given that the movie had to condense four days into two hours, and given that the communications were sometimes rather tedious and technical, it was pretty accurate, ... Apollo 13.

I grew up on Buck Rodgers and Flash Gordon. There wasn't a space program or NASA when I was a kid.