MS SC616

Welcomes former NASA Apollo Astronaut Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. to Mississippi on March 18, 2015, for the Partners for Stennis Space Center Capitol Day event.

Recognizes Haise as a Biloxi High School graduate and aeronautical engineer who was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 13 in 1970 and one of only 24 people to have flown to the moon.

Acknowledges Stennis Space Center's role as America's largest rocket test complex, employing 4,500 civil servants, contractors, scientists and engineers, and its responsibility for testing engines used in Apollo flights and Space Shuttle missions.

Notes Haise's military service as a Marine Corps Fighter Pilot and his post-NASA career as a Test Pilot and Executive with Grumman Aerospace Corporation until his 1996 retirement.

Directs that this resolution be presented to Haise and the Executive Director of Stennis Space Center and made available to the Capitol Press Corps.