Editing Fred Haise (section)

== Early life ==
[[File:Fred Haise 1966.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Haise in 1966]]
Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. was born on November 14, 1933, and raised in [[Biloxi, Mississippi]], to Fred Wallace Haise (1903–1960) and Lucille ({{nee}} Blacksher) Haise (1913–2005).<ref name="never_panic_early">{{cite book| last1=Haise| first1=Fred| last2=Moore| first2=Bill| title=Never Panic Early: An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey| publisher=Smithsonian Books| date=2022| location=Washington, DC| isbn=9781588347138}}</ref>{{rp|1}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=HA060 |title=HAISE, JR., FRED WALLACE (1933– ). |access-date=December 1, 2019 |archive-date=October 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191029090915/https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=HA060 |url-status=live }}</ref> He has a younger sister who was born in 1941.{{r|never_panic_early|p=6}} After the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] on December 7, 1941, his father enlisted in the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] at the age of 38, and the Haise family moved to [[Chicago]].{{r|never_panic_early|p=8}} The family then moved to [[Key West, Florida]], until his father's ship, [[List_of_mine_warfare_vessels_of_the_United_States_Navy#Auxiliary_Motor_Mine_Sweepers_(YMS)|YMS-84]], deployed to the [[Pacific War|South Pacific]], when the family moved back to Biloxi.{{r|never_panic_early|pp=9-10}} He graduated from [[Biloxi High School]] in 1950.{{r|never_panic_early|p=13}} He attended [[Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College|Perkinston Junior College]] with a scholarship for journalism,{{r|never_panic_early|p=13}} and played on the baseball team.{{r|never_panic_early|p=14}} He graduated in 1952,<ref name=twtpwahs>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gzkgAAAAIBAJ&pg=7494%2C2311478 |newspaper=Sarasota Herald-Tribune |agency=Associated Press |title=There was time planes worried astronaut Haise |date=April 7, 1970 |page=12A |via=Google News |access-date=January 9, 2021 |archive-date=March 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326022713/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gzkgAAAAIBAJ&pg=7494,2311478 |url-status=live }}</ref> and joined the Naval Aviation Cadet Program.{{r|never_panic_early|p=16}} He went to ground school at [[NAS Pensacola]],{{r|never_panic_early|p=16}} and then moved to [[NAS Whiting Field]] in 1952.{{r|never_panic_early|p=18}} He trained in the [[North American T-6 Texan|SNJ]] and [[F6F Hellcat]], and completed his flight training in 1954.{{r|never_panic_early|pp=22-26}}  He served as a [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marine Corps]] [[Fighter aircraft|fighter]] [[Aviator|pilot]], with VMF-533, then VMF-114 on the [[F2H Banshee|F2H-4 Banshee]] and [[F-9 Cougar|F9F-8 Cougar]] at [[Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point|MCAS Cherry Point]], [[North Carolina]], from March 1954 to September 1956. Haise also served as a tactics and all-weather [[flight instructor]] in the U.S. Navy Advanced Training Command at [[Naval Air Station Kingsville|NAS Kingsville]], [[Texas]].<ref name="NASAbio" />

Haise has accumulated 9,300 hours flying time, including 6,200 hours in [[jet aircraft|jets]].<ref name="NASAbio" />

After his military service, Haise returned to school and graduated with a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree with honors in [[aeronautical engineering]] from the [[University of Oklahoma]] in 1959, concurrently serving for two years in the [[Oklahoma Air National Guard]], as a fighter interceptor pilot with the [[185th Air Refueling Squadron#Oklahoma Air National Guard|185th Fighter Interceptor Squadron]],<ref name=twtpwahs /> flying the [[North American F-86D Sabre|F-86D.]] He then worked for the newly created [[NASA|National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] (NASA), first as a research pilot at the [[Glenn Research Center|Lewis Research Center]] near [[Cleveland]]. His [[Air National Guard]] unit was called up during the [[Berlin Crisis of 1961]] and he served ten months as a fighter pilot in the [[United States Air Force]].<ref name=ergfwh>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19700412&id=daxVAAAAIBAJ&pg=3183,2509495 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |agency=Associated Press |title=Fred W. Haise |date=April 12, 1970 |page=5A |via=Google News |access-date=January 9, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511231200/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19700412&id=daxVAAAAIBAJ&pg=3183%2C2509495 |url-status=live }}</ref> He was a tactical fighter pilot and chief of the 164th Standardization-Evaluation Flight of the [[164th Airlift Squadron#Tactical Air Command|164th Tactical Fighter Squadron]] at [[Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport|Mansfield Lahm Air National Guard Base]], [[Ohio]],<ref name="NASAbio" /> flying the [[Republic F-84F Thunderstreak|F-84F]].

Haise completed post-graduate courses at the [[U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School|U.S. Air Force Aerospace Research Pilot School]] (Class 64A) at [[Edwards Air Force Base]], [[California]] in 1964, and attended the six-week [[Harvard Business School]]'s [[Harvard Business School#Advanced Management Program|Advanced Management Program]] in 1972.<ref name="NASAbio">{{cite web |title=Astronaut Bio: Fred Haise |publisher=NASA |date=January 1996 |url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/haise_fred.pdf |access-date=March 12, 2021 |archive-date=June 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210630212624/https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/haise_fred.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>