Apollo 14
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| Mission Insignia | |
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| Missing image AP14nightingale.jpg Apollo 14 insignia | |
| Mission Statistics | |
| Mission Name: | Apollo 14 |
| Call Signs: | 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° 38' 43.08" S - 17° 28' 16.90" W Fra Mauro |
| Lunar EVA length: | 1st: 4 h 47 min 50 s 2nd: 4 h 34 min 41 s Total: 9 h 22 min 31 s |
| Lunar Surface Time: | 33 h 30 min 29 s |
| Lunar Sample Mass: | 42.28 kg |
| Splashdown: | February 9, 1971 21:05:00 UTC 27° 1' S - 172° 39' W |
| Duration: | 9 d 0 h 1 min 58 s |
| Number of Lunar Orbits: | 34 |
| Time in Lunar Orbit: | 66 h 35 min 39.99 s |
| Mass: | CSM 29,240 kg; LM 15,264 kg |
| Crew Picture | |
 Apollo 14 crew portrait (L-R: Roosa, Shepard, and Mitchell) | |
| Apollo 14 Crew | |
Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the Apollo program and the third mission to land on the moon.
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Crew
- Alan Shepard (flew on Mercury 3 & Apollo 14), commander
- Stuart Roosa (flew on Apollo 14), command module pilot
- Edgar Mitchell (flew on Apollo 14), lunar module pilot
Backup Crew
- Gene Cernan, commander
- Ron Evans, command module pilot
- Joe Engle, lunar module pilot
Support Crew
Mission Parameters
- Mass: CSM 29,240 kg; LM 15,264 kg
- Perigee: 183.2 km
- Apogee: 188.9 km
- Inclination: 31.12°
- Period: 88.18 min
- Perilune: 108.2 km
- Apolune: 314.1 km
- Inclination: °
- Period: 120 min
- Landing Site: 3.64530° S - 17.47136° W (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunar_sites.html) or
3° 38' 43.08" S - 17° 28' 16.90" W
LM - CSM Docking
- Undocked: February 5, 1971 - 04:50:43 UTC
- Docked: February 6, 1971 - 20:35:42 UTC
EVAs
EVA 1 Start: February 5, 1971, 14:42:13 UTC
- Shepard - EVA 1
- Stepped onto moon: 14:54 UTC
- LM ingress: 19:22 UTC
- Mitchell - EVA 1
- Stepped onto moon: 14:58 UTC
- LM ingress: 19:18 UTC
EVA 1 End: February 5, 19:30:50 UTC
- Duration: 4 hours, 47 minutes, 50 seconds
EVA 2 Start: February 6, 1971, 08:11:15 UTC
- Shepard - EVA 2
- Stepped onto moon: 08:16 UTC
- LM ingress: 12:38 UTC
- Mitchell - EVA 2
- Stepped onto moon: 08:23 UTC
- LM ingress: 12:28 UTC
EVA 2 End: February 6, 12:45:56 UTC
- Duration: 4 hours, 34 minutes, 41 seconds
See also
Mission Highlights
Apollo_14_LM_adapter.jpg
Alan Shepard is the only astronaut from Project Mercury to reach the Moon. He landed his LM closer to the intended mark than any of the other five successful missions. After landing in the Fra Mauro region - the original destination for Apollo 13 - Shepard and Mitchell took two moonwalks, adding new seismic studies to the by now familiar Apollo experiment package, and using a "lunar rickshaw" pull cart to carry their equipment. Their second moonwalk, or EVA, was intended to reach the rim of the 1,000 foot (300 m) wide Cone Crater. However, the astronauts were not able to find the crater amid the rolling terrain of the crater's slopes. Later estimates showed that they had made it to within 30 meters of the crater's rim. Roosa, meanwhile, took pictures from on board command module "Kitty Hawk" in lunar orbit. On the way back to Earth, the crew conducted the first U.S. materials processing experiments in space. The Apollo 14 astronauts were the last lunar explorers to be quarantined on their return from the Moon.
Mission notes
- Shepard smuggled a makeshift six iron golf club and two golf balls to the moon, and took several swings. He exuberantly, and somewhat whimsically, exclaimed that the second ball went "miles and miles and miles" in the lunar gravity, but later estimated it actually went 200 to 400 yards (182.88 to 365.76 m).
- Mitchell conducted some unauthorized extra-sensory perception experiments while en route to the Moon, with friends back on Earth; the number of matches were reportedly less than would have been obtained by random chance.
The mission's command module Kitty 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.
Quote
"It's been a long way, but we're here." Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
Statistics
- 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
Media
External link
- Map of surface activities for Apollo 14 (http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/LunarAtlas/maps/images/AP14_traverseL.jpg)
- Apollo 14 entry in Encyclopedia Astronautica (http://www.astronautix.com/flights/apollo14.htm)~
Reference
- NASA NSSDC Master Catalog (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/sc-query.html)
- APOLLO BY THE NUMBERS: A Statistical Reference by Richard W. Orloff (NASA) (http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_00a_Cover.htm)
- The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology (http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4009/cover.htm)
- Apollo Program Summary Report (http://history.nasa.gov/apsr/apsr.htm)
- Apollo 14 Characteristics - SP-4012 NASA HISTORICAL DATA BOOK (http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4012/vol3/table2.42.htm)
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