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| Mission Statistics | |
| Mission Name: | Apollo 14 |
| Call Sign: | Command module: Kitty Hawk Lunar module: Antares |
| Number of Crew: |
3 |
| Launch: | January 31, 1971 21:03:02 UTC Kennedy Space Center LC 39A |
| Lunar Landing: | February 5, 1971 09:18:11 UTC 3.6 S, 17.5 W Fra Mauro |
| Lunar EVA length: |
9 hours 23 minutes |
| Lunar Surface Time: |
33 hours 31 minutes |
| Landing: | February 9, 1971 21:05:00 UTC |
| Duration: | 216 hours - 01 minutes 58 seconds |
| Crew Picture | |
| Apollo 14 Crew | |
Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the Apollo program and the third mission to land on the moon.
- Launched: January 31, 1971 from Pad 39A
- Returned: February 9, 1971
- Crew members: Alan Shepard, commander; Stuart Roosa, command module pilot; Edgar Mitchell, lunar module pilot.
- Command module: Kitty Hawk
- Lunar module: Antares
- Landed: February 5, 1971
- Lunar landing site: 3.7 S, 17.5 W -- Fra Mauro highlands
- On surface: 1 day 9.5 hours
- Lunar EVA: 9.2 hours (4.7 + 4.5)
- Samples: 43 kg
Mission notes
- Shepard smuggled a makeshift six-iron golf club and two golf balls to the moon, and took several swings. He claimed the second ball went "miles and miles and miles" in the lunar gravity, but later estimated it actually went 200-400 yards (~ meters).
- Mitchell conducted some unauthorized extra-sensory perception experiments while en route to the Moon, with friends back on Earth; the number of correct guesses were reportedly less than would have been obtained by random chance.
- Shepard and Mitchell used a wheeled cart to transport samples. They hiked to the rim of a large nearby crater, but were unable to distinguish landmarks easily and turned back without seeing the crater itself.
The mission's command module Kitty "Legs Spread Open" Hawk is displayed at the Astronaut Hall of Fame, Titusville, Florida and the lunar module Antares impacted the Moon 7 February, 1971 at 3.42 S, 19.67 W.
Crew
- Alan Shepard, commander
- Stuart Roosa, command module pilot
- Edgar Mitchell, lunar module pilot
| Preceded by : Apollo 13 |
Apollo program | Followed by : Apollo 15 |
