Apollo 14

Backup Crew

Support Crew

Mission Parameters

• Perilune: 108.2 km
• Apolune: 314.1 km
• Inclination: °
• Period: 120 min
• Landing Site: 3.64530° S - 17.47136° W 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
  

  Moon walk

  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

• 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

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. A planned rock collecting trip to the 1,000­ foot (300 m) wide Cone Crater was dropped, however, when the astronauts had trouble finding their way around the lunar surface. Although later estimates showed that they had made it to within 30 meters of the crater's rim, the explorers had become disoriented in the alien landscape. 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 exhuberantly, 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.
• 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.

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