None of us knew what it was,” Haise said, laughing.

In his riveting memoir Never Panic Early, Haise gives readers a front-row seat to the harrowing event and the remarkable experience of being an astronaut. Haise, Commander Jim Lovell and Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert had to work with the crews. Haise was just 36 when Apollo 13 took off in 1970. Intensity is, no doubt, part of space exploration and development. “To capture how many skills, how many people it took to get the job done and the intensity, schedule pressure.” “I guess one of the things I wanted to capture in the book are particularly the parts that covered the space program parts, Apollo 13 and even in the Space Shuttle days with the enterprise flights I flew and the work I did in the program office,” Haise said. Fifty-two years later at 88-years-old, Apollo 13 astronaut, and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise, remembers those harrowing moments, describing them vividly in his newly released book, memoir, Never Panic Early: An Apollo 13 Astronaut’s Journey. On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 crew left Earth on a Saturn V rocket. It was a mission that captured the world’s attention - a moon landing mission turned heart-stopping rescue.

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