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SUMMARY:Lecture: \"Failure Is Not An Option\"
LOCATION:Stephens Auditorium\, Iowa State Center - Admission
  Free - doors open at 6 p.m.
URL:http://www.lectures.iastate.edu/lecture/18713
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 nAstronaut Fred Haise served as the lunar module pilot durin
 g the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13 space mission. He survived an
 other harrowing ordeal in 1973\, following an aircraft crash
  during filming of the Pearl Harbor epic\, Tora! Tora! Tora!
  Haise went on to become one of the first astronauts to pilo
 t the space shuttle in test missions. He will use NASA foota
 ge of the Apollo 13 flight during his presentation.\n-------
 -------------\nFred Wallace Haise Jr. was a member of the il
 l-fated Apollo 13 moon flight\, and a space shuttle test pil
 ot. His only flight into space was on Apollo 13 (April 11-17
 \, 1970). Haise and mission commander James A. Lovell\, Jr.\
 , were to have separated the lunar landing module Aquarius f
 rom the command module Odyssey\, piloted by astronaut Jack S
 wigert; they would have landed near Fra Mauro\, a hilly regi
 on on the moon. Fifty-five hours into the mission\, an oxyge
 n tank in the service module behind the command capsule expl
 oded. Quick thinking by the crew enabled them to power down 
 the capsule and power up the lunar module\, turning the latt
 er into a cold but functional lifeboat. After 86 hours and o
 ne quick swing by the moon\, the astronauts were able to pow
 er up the capsule systems and made a safe return to the eart
 h.\n\nThe cancellation of Apollo flights 18 through 20 due t
 o congressional budget cuts removed any further chance of a 
 return to the moon for Haise. He instead turned his efforts 
 toward the space shuttle\, serving as technical assistant to
  the manager of the space shuttle orbiter project. Later\, h
 e piloted three of the atmospheric glide tests of the orbite
 r Enterprise (flights 1\, 3\, and 5\, June to October\, 1977
 ). In March 1978 Haise was assigned to command the third orb
 ital flight of the shuttle on a rescue mission to Skylab\, b
 ut the ailing space station reentered the atmosphere and bur
 ned before the much-delayed shuttle flight could be made.\n\
 nHaise was born in 1933 in Biloxi\, Mississippi. He graduate
 d from Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College before becoming
  a naval aviation cadet in 1952. After flight training he be
 came a flight instructor at the United States Navy's advance
 d training command at Kingsville Naval Air Station\, Texas. 
 From 1954 to 1956 he served as a U.S. Marine Corps fighter p
 ilot. In 1957 he enrolled at the University of Oklahoma\, gr
 aduating in 1959 with a D.Sc. degree in aerospace engineerin
 g. From 1957 to 1959\, while still at college\, he served as
  a fighter pilot in the Oklahoma Air National Guard. Later i
 n 1959 he returned to flying as a research pilot for NASA's 
 Lewis Research Center in Cleveland\, Ohio\, and served as a 
 U.S. Air Force pilot with the rank of captain from 1961 to 1
 962. In 1963 he became a NASA civilian pilot at Edwards Air 
 Force Base in California and three years later was chosen as
  an astronaut.\n\nPart of Engineers' Week 2009.\n\nContact: 
 lectures@iastate.edu\nPhone: 515-294-9934
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