Apollo 14
Launch vehicle:
Saturn 5
Launch: 31 January
1971
Recovery: 9 February
1971
Crew: Edgar Mitchell,
Stuart Roosa, Alan Shepard
The Apollo
14 spacecraft (CSM-110 Kitty Hawk and LM-8 Antares) weighed more than any
previous Apollo craft because of safety modifications introduced in the
wake of the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 flight. Antares landed in the Fra
Mauro Crater, 110 miles east of Apollo 12 on 5 February. The astronauts
spent a record of 9 hours 24 minutes outside the LM on the surface deploying
the ALSEP and collecting 94 pounds of lunar material for 187 projects in
the US and 14 foreign countries. The Kitty Hawk returned to earth for a
Pacific splashdown 216 hours 2 minutes after launch.
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