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I was born on November 14, 1933, and raised in Biloxi, Mississippi, graduating from Biloxi High School in 1950, and Perkinston Junior College, with original aims of a career in journalism, receiving an Associate of Arts degree in 1952. Eligible for the draft and despite being apprehensive of flying, I joined the naval aviation cadet training program. I underwent Naval Aviator training from 1952 to 1954 and served as a U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot at MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina, from March 1954 to September 1956 accumulating 9,300 hours flying time, including 6,200 hours in jet aircraft.
After military service, I returned to school and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1959, concurrently serving in the Oklahoma Air National Guard. I then worked for the newly created NASA as a research pilot at the Lewis Research Center near Cleveland, Ohio. My air guard unit was called up during the Berlin Crisis of 1961 and I served ten months as a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force. I completed post-graduate courses at the Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California in 1964, and Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program in 1972.
I flew as the lunar module pilot on the aborted Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970. Due to the free return trajectory on this mission, Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and I likely hold the record for the furthest distance from the Earth ever traveled by human beings. I was slated to become the sixth human to walk on the Moon during Apollo 13 behind Lovell, who was to be fifth. Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell eventually became the fifth and sixth, respectively, on Apollo 14, which completed Apollo 13's mission to the Fra Mauro formation.
I remained in the astronaut rotation and served as the backup mission Commander for Apollo 16. Though there was no formal selection, I was prospectively slated to command Apollo 19 with William R. Pogue as Command Module Pilot and Gerald P. Carr as Lunar Module Pilot. However, the mission was canceled in late 1970 due to budget cuts.
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