Apollo 14 isn’t a mission that jumps to the fore of most peoples’ minds. It didn’t break ground like Apollo 11, which landed the first humans on the moon. And it didn’t cause the stir of Apollo 13, a ...
The Apollo program should be remembered as much for landing the first humans on the Moon as it is for countless demonstrations of problem solving and ingenuity, of continual fine-tuning and honing of ...
The Church of the Savior United Church of Christ in Knoxville got an unexpected gift from space in 1972 - one that continues ...
Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell sits for his official portrait in 1970. Mitchell’s crewmates on the mission in 1971 were Alan Shepard and Stuart Roosa. (Credit: NASA) Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar ...
All of the Apollo missions placed NASA and the astronauts under extreme pressure to succeed, but Apollo 14 faced unusual challenges even before it launched in February 1971. Coming on the heels of the ...
Apollo 14 astronauts, sealed inside a mobile quarantine facility, greet the press and USS New Orleans crew. The three astronauts successfully completed their 10-day lunar landing mission with a ...
On February 5, 1971, humans successfully landed on the Moon for the third time as part of the Apollo 14 mission. Astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell spent a total of 33 and a half hours on the ...
MIAMI — Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13’s “successful failure” and later devoted his life to ...
WASHINGTON - A robotic spaceship circling the moon has snapped the sharpest photos ever of the tracks and trash left by Apollo astronauts in visits from 1969 to 1972. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance ...
A golf ball which an astronaut had claimed was 'lost' on the moon after a massive golf swing has been found 50 years later. Astronaut Alan Shepard famously took a golf swing with makeshift iron and ...
A Rolex watch that made a trip to the Moon is going up for auction – and the price will be out of this world. RR Auction house is offering the GMT-Master ‘Pepsi’ model watch which belonged originally ...
On Feb. 5, 1971, the Apollo lunar surface experiments package's central station, the active seismic experiment (front and center), and the modular equipment transporter (right) are set up on the lunar ...
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