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FRED W. HAISE JR., 36, lunar-module pilot, might have been a member of the press corps covering the flight of Apollo 13 if not for the draft. A native of Biloxi, Miss., he studied journalism at Perkinston Junior College, a two-year school, and looked forward to a writing career. Instead, faced with induction, he enlisted as a naval aviation cadet. "Like most kids at that age, you kind of jump into things before you really think about it," he said. Whatever his original thoughts, he quickly became hooked on flying. After 2½years as a Marine pilot...
...walked away unscratched from the blaze that demolished his aircraft. Another time, as he was landing at Buckley Air Field near Denver, his brakes failed and his plane slammed into the base's arresting cables, but he escaped unhurt. Although he was a last-minute replacement on Apollo 13's star-crossed trip, Swigert showed great skill in improvising new emergency procedures after the explosion crippled the Odyssey. But then he should have. He helped develop the original emergency procedures for the command module's instruction manual...
...courage of Apollo 13's three astronauts was apparent to all the world. A less conspicuous kind of courage was displayed on the ground. Inside the windowless Building 30 of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center outside Houston, hundreds of engineers and technicians assembled to guide the crippled spacecraft through its four-day ordeal. Perhaps the coolest and most professional of them were the two young flight director-Glynn Lunney, 33, and Gene Kranz, 36-who were at the helm in Mission Control during the first hours of crisis...
...moment. "O.K., everybody," he told his controllers. "Let's be quiet. We've got a lot of business to do. Let's concentrate on the bird." With those firm words, he began the procedures that would fire the lunar module's engines, kick Apollo into a "free-return" trajectory, and head the astronauts toward earth after they whipped around the moon...
Upstaged by a nearby campus uprising and the Apollo 13 crisis, Jane Fonda got little local press coverage during her 36-hour "fast for peace" in Denver. But she was hardly ignored. Tourists and construction workers thronged around her and gaped at her skin-tight jeans and sweater as she camped out in a downtown square. Even Governor John Love dropped by for an amiable chat. Next day, her passive protest ended, Jane was back in action at Denver's Federal Tower Building, where she urged young antiwar demonstrators: "Be cool but don't give your bodies...