Apollo 14

**Apollo 14**
Mission Insignia

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° 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
Landing:	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

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 (2), commander
Stuart Roosa (1), command module pilot
Edgar Mitchell (1), lunar module pilot

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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: or
3° 38' 43.08" S - 17° 28' 16.90" W

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LM - CSM Docking

Undocked: February 5, 1971 - 04:50:43 UTC
Docked: February 6, 1971 - 20:35:42 UTC

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Moon walk

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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

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EVA 1 End: February 5, 19:30:50 UTC

- Duration: 4 hours, 47 minutes, 50 seconds

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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

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EVA 2 End: February 6, 12:45:56 UTC

- Duration: 4 hours, 34 minutes, 41 seconds

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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.

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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 to 400 yards (200 to 400 m).
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.

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