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Stuart Allen Roosa (August 16, 1933 – December 12, 1994) was an American aeronautical engineer, smokejumper, United States Air Force pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 14 mission.
Durango: Stuart Roosa (1933–1994) — Apollo 14; ... Jim Lovell, first NASA astronaut to fly four times, first man to fly to the Moon twice — Gemini 7, ...
Apollo 14's Command Module Pilot (CMP), Stuart Roosa, aged 37 when the mission flew, had been a smoke jumper before joining the Air Force in 1953. He became a fighter pilot and then in 1965 successfully completed Aerospace Research Pilot School (ARPS) at Edwards Air Force Base in California prior to his selection as a Group 5 astronaut the ...
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 ...
Stuart Roosa (NASA Astronaut Group 5) August 16, 1933: December 12, 1994 (aged 61) 37: Apollo 14 January 31 – February 9, 1971: Air Force: In rotation ...
The Moon Tree Foundation is an organization run by Roosa's daughter, Rosemary, which seeks to plant Moon trees in regions around the world. The foundation sponsors and hosts ceremonies to plant new trees, with seeds produced by the original generation of trees that grew from the seeds carried by Roosa in 1971.
NASA Astronaut Group 5 (nicknamed "The Original Nineteen") was a group of nineteen astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. ... Stuart A. Roosa: Durango, Colorado,
Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies. However, with the advent of suborbital flight starting with privately funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial astronaut.