The Apollo missions still inspire people today, decades after they took place. A fortunate side effect of the global public relations campaign is that a lot of information is publicly available ...

Apollo 14 Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr., and lunar module pilot Edgar D. Mitchell deployed the components during their first moonwalk. During their first extravehicular activity, the two Apollo 14 ...

After five years at NASA, Mitchell received accolades from his peers for his knowledge of the lunar-landing module, which was likely factored in to NASA's decision to put him on Apollo 14 ...

After 79 hours and 28 minutes of coasting, Apollo 14 went into lunar orbit. In order to save fuel aboard the Lunar Module, Kitty Hawk lowered the altitude before Shepard and Mitchell, in the ...

After Apollo 14 landed safely on the moon, he and Shepard spent nine hours outside of the Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) exploring the lunar surface. Mitchell was a brilliant scientist and a ...

Alongside him were two rookies: Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell and Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa. Though Apollo 14 was a success, it wasn’t without some intense troubleshooting of its own.

Ed Mitchell piloted the Lunar Module on Apollo 14. Credit: NASA After Apollo 13’s near-disaster and aborted Moon landing, Apollo 14 (1971) saw America’s first astronaut, Alan Shepard ...

Marusiak was not directly involved in the study, though she did have contact with the authors as a fellow expert in lunar seismology. Marusiak noted that every Apollo mission carried instruments ...