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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 ...
In terms of photography, Apollo 14's crew proved to be less "trigger-happy" than the preceding Apollo 12 crew and only took 417 pictures on the Moon, compared to 583 on the earlier mission. However, 288 of these were components of 17 distinct panoramas and ALSJ lists another 25 sub-panoramas within these.
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Cone crater is a small crater in the Fra Mauro highlands, north of Fra Mauro crater, on the Moon.The name of the crater was formally adopted by the IAU in 1973. [1]The Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell landed the Lunar Module (LM) Antares southwest of Cone crater on February 5, 1971.
Edgar Mitchell's memorial in the Treasures of Apollo exhibit at Kennedy Space Center Apollo 14 command module Kitty Hawk, Mitchell's memorial wreath nearby Mitchell died under hospice care in West Palm Beach, Florida , at the age of 85, on February 4, 2016, [ 11 ] [ 45 ] the eve of the 45th anniversary of his lunar landing. [ 17 ]
Apollo 12 (November 14–24, 1969) was the second crewed landing on the Moon. The sixth crewed mission in the U.S. Apollo program , it was launched by NASA from the Kennedy Space Center , Florida. Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean walked on the Moon while Command Module Pilot Richard Gordon remained in orbit.
The failure of Apollo 13 delayed Apollo 14 until 1971 so that modifications could be made to the spacecraft. The target of the Apollo 14 mission was switched to the Fra Mauro formation, the intended destination of Apollo 13. [107] Shepard made his second space flight as commander of Apollo 14 from January 31 to February 9, 1971.
Haise was selected to command the Apollo 19 lunar landing, which was canceled. Haise would later be named commander of the first crew for the Space Shuttle's Approach and Landing Tests using the prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise. Stuart A. Roosa – Command Module Pilot on Apollo 14; Edgar D. Mitchell – Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 14