Never Panic Early: An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey
by Fred Haise and Bill Moore · 4 Apr 2022 · 263pp · 72,899 words
. Taylor Designed by Gary Tooth / Empire Design Studio Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Haise, Fred, 1933- author. | Moore, Bill, author. Title: Never panic early : an Apollo 13 astronaut’s journey / Fred Haise with Bill Moore. Identifiers: LCCN 2021053466 (print) | LCCN 2021053467 (ebook) | ISBN 9781588347138 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781588347145 (ebook) Subjects
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BY GENE KRANZ Hundreds of books have been written by astronauts, and while reading Fred Haise’s early, well-written chapters, I concluded that Never Panic Early serves two purposes. First, it’s the story of the Apollo generation of astronauts. Second, it recounts Haise’s determination and destiny to become a
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not be found in writing. It began as a Marine fighter pilot, winning his wings of gold in the fabled Grumman Hellcat in 1954. Never panic early experiences come early and often to young aviators. Haise’s first calamity arose due to a combination of bad weather and an engine failure, resulting
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lunar modules that Haise developed and tested in the Grumman plant. His description of the Apollo 13 oxygen tank explosion as one of his never panic early experiences relays a close and personal sense of the event. My team and I had faced mission crises before—the Gemini 8 emergency reentry to
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, would dive through this melee of aircraft pursued by a single American P-40 Warhawk. An engine failure on a ferry flight triggered another never panic early moment when the aircraft tumbled and burned in a crash landing amid a field of cows. Haise received second- and third-degree burns over two
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-velocity aircraft rockets against targets. I also got to exercise the Banshee’s 20-millimeter cannons against a towed sleeve target. My first real never panic early situation happened during a routine cross-country flight. This mantra was something I picked up from my time at Edwards AFB, as taking action abruptly
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. On one night flight, I was startled when the bright red light came on, signifying the aircraft was on fire. Following the adage to never panic early, I quickly scanned the instrument panel for the exhaust gas temperature reading to find that it was normal. I then called my wingman to check
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’m third from the left in the middle row, with my hands on my knees. Courtesy of the Oklahoma Air Guard I had one never panic early experience in the F-86. I experienced a primary hydraulic system failure in flight, and recycling did not restore pressure. After I landed, when the
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the pull up at 529 miles per hour and heard a loud noise, which was accompanied by an abrupt yawing motion. This was another never panic early moment, so I quickly reduced the throttle and was relieved that we were still headed in the right direction, namely upward. We surmised that a
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. After trimming the aircraft to 195 miles per hour, I struck the control yoke with my hand to excite vehicle dynamics. This was a never panic early moment. I felt like I was riding a jack hammer—the plane was shaking so hard that my vision blurred. Within a few seconds, the
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room. Neil had not reported any vehicle control problems with the alarms, and I was hoping that an abort would not be called prematurely. Never panic early! I left Mission Control to watch the EVA with Buzz’s family at his home in Nassau Bay. I had a copy of the checklist
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, then a decreasing g level, with a brief high-frequency vibration, followed by a slight drop in acceleration. This was another one of those never panic early moments. As Jim reported a center-engine shutdown, I noticed that the number five engine light had gone out on the instrument panel in front
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module. Courtesy of NASA Jack fired the attitude jets to avoid an attitude excursion into IMU gimbal lock. The situation was clearly one of never panic early. I was confused. There was no single failure that could cause these problems in the various, standalone systems. In our simple spacecraft, the systems were
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about 300-feet altitude, headed south toward the Gulf of Mexico, the engine started sputtering and cutting out. This was clearly one of those never panic early moments. So, I switched fuel tanks, even though I knew both had fuel, and rapidly pumped the wobble pump handle to increase fuel pressure. With
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we had experienced in our various simulation devices. Initially, the four synchronized computers worked perfectly, but this elation came with another one of those never panic early moments, because we got a master alarm, a computer caution and warning, a CAM column on the GPC-2 computer, and a big X on
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. We also performed instrumentation and calibration of ground systems and the maintenance and analysis for the launch pad lightening protection system. I had a never panic early moment, when I realized that we were to be the first of our team to transition to support the STS-3 launch on March 22
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ten days, a job fair had garnered the resumes of nearly five hundred people, half of whom were worthy of interviews. * * * — There was another never panic early moment when I got a call from Scott Chrysler at corporate, informing me that Jack Bierwirth, the corporate chairman, had invited me to join him
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of any type only act promptly and adequately during a crisis. I suspect that there would be worldwide action and a change in the never panic early philosophy, if climate change results in a foot of water in most coastal cities. I do not know what would be required to remedy such
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galaxies, and think that the Creator put all that there just for me. * * * — ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A lot of people helped us as we worked on Never Panic Early. Early in the process, Bill Barry, NASA chief historian (now retired), provided some crucial advice on where to find the NASA records we needed. Staff
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Navy AJ-2 Savage, 42–43, 43 Navy R4D aircraft, 40–42 Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission, 191 Nelson, George, 81 Nelson, John, 156 “never panic early” situations Apollo 13 explosion and reentry, 109–27 Apollo 13 liftoff, 106 approaching MCAS Marine Masters (Miami), 30–32 Confederate Air Force, 146–47 F
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go on to construct a model that prescribed the same precautionary approach practiced by chaos kings: When the risk is existential, you’ve got to panic early. CHAPTER 19 IT’S WAY PAST TIME Heavy rain splashed the windshield of Bob Litterman’s Tesla as he maneuvered through light traffic on the
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