Bidspirit auction | Apollo 13 Astronaut Fred Haise

Apollo 13 Astronaut Fred Haise signed NASA photo inscribed Enterprise LMP. Colour 10 x 8 inch photo. RARE to Tony and inscribed Best Wishes Fred Haise Apollo 13 LMP Enterprise Cdr. Fred Wallace Haise Jr. (born November 14, 1933) is an American former NASA astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force, and test pilot. He is one of the 24 Apollo astronauts to reach the Moon, having served as Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 13. He was to have been the sixth person to walk on the Moon, but the Apollo 13 landing was aborted en route. Haise flew five Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests in 1977. He retired from NASA in 1979. He is the last surviving crew member of Apollo 13 and the last surviving Apollo astronaut that reached the Moon without landing. In 1966, Haise was one of 19 astronauts selected for NASA Astronaut Group 5. He had already worked with NASA for several years as a civilian research pilot. He was the first astronaut in his group to be assigned to a mission, serving as backup Lunar Module Pilot for both Apollo 8 and Apollo 11. According to the rotation of crews during Apollo, Haise was originally assigned as Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 14, but his crew was switched to Apollo 13 so that Alan Shepard could have more training time. He flew as Lunar Module Pilot on the aborted Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970. Due to the distance between the Earth and Moon during the mission, Haise, Jim Lovell, and Jack Swigert set the record for the farthest distance from the Earth ever travelled by human beings, which stood until the Artemis II lunar flyby in 2026. Haise and Jack Swigert were the first astronauts from Group 5 to fly in space. During this flight, Haise developed a urinary tract infection and later kidney infections. These caused him to be in pain for most of the trip. Haise was slated to become the sixth human to walk on the Moon during Apollo 13 behind Lovell, who was to be fifth. Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell eventually became the fifth and sixth respectively on Apollo 14, which completed Apollo 13's mission to the Fra Mauro formation. Haise served as backup commander for Apollo 16. Though there was no formal selection, Haise was prospectively slated to command Apollo 19 with William R. Pogue as Command Module Pilot and Gerald P. Carr as Lunar Module Pilot. However, the mission was cancelled in 1970 due to budget cuts. Good condition. Part of Single Vendor collection. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide.