Never panic early An Apollo 13 astronaut's journey

Fred Haise, 1933-

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"The extraordinary autobiography of astronaut Fred Haise, one of only 24 men to fly to the moon"--

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Subjects
Genres
Biographies
Published
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books [2022]
Language
English
Main Author
Fred Haise, 1933- (author)
Other Authors
Bill (Billy Don) Moore (author)
Physical Description
xiii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781588347138
  • Foreword
  • Acronym List
  • My Beginnings
  • Leaving the Nest and Learning to Fly
  • Into the Jet Age
  • Back to School and Into Nasa
  • The X-Series
  • My Introduction to Aerospace
  • Life on the Edge of Space
  • My Ticket to the Moon
  • Odyssey-A Perfect Name
  • A Sudden Detour
  • Back Training for the Moon
  • A Return to Flight Testing
  • Joining the Iron Works
  • In The Rocking Chair
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
Review by Choice Review

In April 1970, Apollo 13 suffered an explosion on its way to the Moon. The story of the crew's survival and return to Earth alive is well known as it was recounted in a famous Hollywood film. The crew traveled around the Moon and returned safely to Earth despite an accident involving an oxygen tank in one module. The three-person mission included Haise as the lunar module pilot, and this book provides the astronaut's comprehensive autobiography. He was born in 1933 in Biloxi, Mississippi; became a US Marine Corps fighter pilot in 1952; and later served as a flight instructor in the US Navy Advanced Training Command. While working for NASA Haise was one of 19 astronauts selected to train with NASA's fifth astronaut class in 1966. The details and harrowing aspects of surviving the explosion aboard Apollo 13 are recounted in a very engaging manner. Haise was expected to subsequently command the Apollo 19 mission but it was cancelled; he stayed with NASA to fly on several space shuttle program test missions in 1977. The book includes black-and-white photos and will be enjoyed by scholars as well as space enthusiasts. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. --John Z. Kiss, University of North Carolina Greensboro

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Review by Booklist Review

"Never panic early" is learned by military pilots to stay calm in moments of crisis. This advice served Haise well over the course of his 40-plus years career. Most famous as one of the three Apollo 13 astronauts and their aborted moon landing, he also worked as a test pilot in the Marine Corps and as a NASA test pilot, and he was a member of the four--person test-pilot team to fly the first space shuttle, Enterprise. While at NASA, he served as CapCom for Apollo 14, was assigned to several backup crews, worked the closeout crew to prepare for Apollo 8 and 11, acted as a technical advisor on various projects, and even completed Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program. He eventually went to work as an executive for Grumman Aerospace. This memoir eschews self-revelation in favor of a focus on the work. It's dense with detail of the day-to-day reality of being a Marine pilot, engineer, and astronaut, filled with acronyms and technical jargon. It's a down-to-Earth counterpoint to the typical dramatizations about the space race.

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Haise recounts his career as an Apollo astronaut in this meticulous memoir. Born in 1933, Haise joined the Naval Aviation Cadet Program after college and determined to become an aviator upon completing his first flight lesson. After training as a fighter pilot, he obtained a degree in aeronautical engineering and, in 1959, joined the newly created NASA as a research pilot. Haise highlights his experiences at NASA, where he was selected as the backup lunar module commander for Apollo 8 and 11. He vividly shows how that training proved crucial when he was the lunar module commander on Apollo 13 in 1970: after an onboard explosion during the mission, he and his crewmates relied on their vessel's life support systems while they looped around the moon and made a harrowing return to Earth. Haise's passion for flying is unmistakable, though the abundance of dense and technical details about aircraft and spacecraft will likely leave more casual readers feeling lost. For those well versed in aeronautics, this is an illuminating personal history of NASA's space program. Photos. (Apr.)

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