Biloxi LighthouseBilox pierStatue honoring Astronaut Fred Haise, who was one of the astronauts on Apollo 13. The Apollo 13 mission, the third planned lunar landing became a “successful failure” after a critical system failure. The spaceship was severely damaged when an oxygen tank exploded 200,000 miles from Earth, and the crew was able to manually navigate their way back to a successful splashdown on earth. Cool Apollo 13 path to the Haise statue.Hurricane Katrina MemorialStatue of Pierre LeMoynne Sieur d’Iberville 1661-1706, Canada’s first hero sent by King Louis XIV to locate the mouth of the Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico (now Gulf of America). He landed on the Biloxi peninsula in 1699 which began the colonization of the Mississippi coast and the Louisiana Territory.Lighthouse at night.
