https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/95217bbe-780e-4d5f-af06-ca3b9570e8fd 7/2/20 American Space Museum interview with Apollo 13 Astronaut Fred Haise and long time friend Charlie Mars of NASA. In addition to Apollo, they discuss the Space Shuttle Enterprise Approach and Landing Tests, Fred's aircraft accident, other parts of their careers, and the movie "Apollo 13". We also asked about Fred's family and his work with the Infinity Science Center. He and Charlie discussed the effort it took to collect the astronaut handprints for the Space Walk of Fame monuments at Titusville's Space View Park. (On their own time and expense, Charlie and space pioneer Sam Beddingfield traveled around the country collecting astronaut handprints in plaster to later be cast in bronze for the monuments.) Moderated by Mark Marquette, this interview is part of our museum's "Stay Curious" series and our "Space Workers Oral History" project. ABOUT FRED HAISE... Retired astronaut Fred Haise is best known for serving as the Lunar Module Pilot for the Apollo 13 mission, which was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970. An explosion in one of the oxygen tanks two days into the mission prevented the three astronauts, Commander Jim Lovell, Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert and Fred Haise, from landing on the moon. For four days, the world awaited the safe return of the crew, who successfully splashed down in the South Pacific. After Apollo 13, Haise served as backup commander for Apollo 16 and was slated to be Flight Commander for Apollo 19. However, NASA cancelled Apollo missions 18 and 19. Haise then moved to the Space Shuttle program and commanded three of the five ALT (Approach and Landing Tests) for the Space Shuttle Enterprise. Fred Haise piloted Enterprise, NASA's first space shuttle in free flight to three successful landings. In other words, Fred Haise was the person who landed the space shuttle for the very first time, a process many considered to be the most challenging part of the mission. Today... Fred serves on the "INFINITY Science Center" board of directors. Fred is also an emeritus board member of American Space Museum's parent "U.S. Space Walk of Fame Foundation". ABOUT CHARLIE MARS... Now retired from NASA, Charlie graduated from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 1958. He spent 4 ½ years with Martin Orlando designing ground support equipment for the LaCrosse and Pershing missile systems before coming to NASA in 1963. His hardware experience covers Mercury, Gemini, Command and Service Module and the Lunar Module, Skylab, Shuttle Vandenberg activation and the Space Station programs. Mr. Mars has held the positions of lead power and Sequential Engineer, Power and Sequential systems Supervisor, Chief Project Engineer for Launch Operations, Chief of the Shuttle Project Office, Activation Chief for Vandenberg representing both KSC and the Shuttle Level Two Program Office, Manager of Operations and Logistics for the Space Station Program office in Reston, Virginia, Director of Mission Assurance at KSC, and Deputy Director of Safety and Mission Assurance. Today... Charlie is chairman of American Space Museum's parent "U.S. Space Walk of Fame Foundation". ORIGIN: An ORIGINAL production of The American Space Museum, Titusville, FL. PRODUCER and HOST: Mark Marquette CO-PRODUCER and CAMERA: Marty Winkel EDITED by Bruce Landon Jacobs COPYRIGHT 2020 American Space Museum and U.S. Space Walk of Fame Foundation Mirrored from YouTube: https://youtu.be/_myZARc1UZ8 Original channel: American Space Museum Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:44:07 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/ec5edb1e-3795-4978-be4f-c67e98fbc992.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/95217bbe-780e-4d5f-af06-ca3b9570e8fd All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.