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Apollo 14 (January 31 – February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, the third to land on the Moon, and the first to land in the lunar highlands. It was the last of the " H missions ", landings at specific sites of scientific interest on the Moon for two-day stays with two lunar extravehicular ...
NASA's Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (ALSJ) [1] records the details of each mission's time on the lunar surface as a timeline of the activities undertaken, the dialogue between the crew and Mission Control, and the relevant documentary records. Each photograph taken on the mission is catalogued there and each photographic sequence is also recorded.
Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
Apollo 14 first moonwalk: Alan Shepard Edgar Mitchell: 5 February 1971 14:42:13 5 February 1971 19:30:03 4 h 47 min 50 s Shepard and Mitchell deployed the modular equipment stowage assembly, grabbed a contingency sample, and successfully set up the color TV camera. They erected an American flag and the solar wind foil.
Carrying turtles, making this the second mission of Earthlings to travel in close proximity of the Moon, the flyby was on 14 November with a closest approach of 2,420 kilometres (1,500 mi). [65] Reentered Earth's atmosphere on 17 November; recovery was unsuccessful after parachutes were prematurely jettisoned. [62] 64: Apollo 8: Apollo 8: 21 ...
On Feb. 9, 1971, NASA's Apollo 14 astronauts came home after the agency's third trip to the moon. Former U.S. Forest Service firefighter Stuart Roosa, the mission's command module pilot, returned ...
This is a timeline of Solar System exploration ordering events in the exploration of the Solar System by date of spacecraft launch. It includes: It includes: All spacecraft that have left Earth orbit for the purposes of Solar System exploration (or were launched with that intention but failed), including lunar probes .
This is a timeline of achievements in Soviet and United States spaceflight, ... Apollo 15: 1971 November 14 USA First spacecraft to orbit Mars Mariner 9: 1971 November 27