Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. (born November 14, 1933) is an engineer

Engineer

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 and former NASA

NASA

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 astronaut

Astronaut

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. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon. Having flown on Apollo 13

Apollo 13

Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, at 13:13 CST. The landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the service module upon which the Command...

, Haise was to be the sixth human to walk on the Moon, but the mission did not land due to a failure aboard the spacecraft.
Haise was born in Biloxi, Mississippi

Biloxi, Mississippi

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. He attended Biloxi High School

Biloxi High School

Biloxi High School is the only public high school located in the city of Biloxi, Mississippi. It has approximately 1400 students and 100 faculty. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, there were 1201 students. Biloxi High School is the Alma Mater of Fred Haise, a member of the Apollo 13 mission to the...

 and Perkinston Junior College (now Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College consists of four campuses and four centers: the main campus, located in Perkinston, Mississippi; the Jackson County Campus, in Gautier; the Jefferson Davis Campus, in Gulfport; the Community Campus, a non-traditional campus without walls; the George County...

). He graduated with honors in aeronautical engineering from the University of Oklahoma

University of Oklahoma

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 in 1959.