APOLLO 14

 
 
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.

 
 
Command Pilot Stu Roosa, Mission Commander Allen Shepard and Lunar pilot Ed Mitchell.

 
 
 
Fish eye view of Allen Shepard and Ed Mitchell training in the Lunar Module.

 
 
 
 LM-8 ascent stage during checkout at the Cape.

 
 
 
Allen Shepard pulling the Modular Equipment Transporter under weightless conditions aboard an Air Force KC-135.

 
 
 
 Apollo 14 begins rollout from Vertical Assembly Building

 
 
 Astronaut Allen Shepard stands near a Lunar Landing training vehicle.

 
 
 Shepard examines the weather conditions as he walks from the transfer unit van to the pad elevator on launch day.

 
 
 
Launch of Apollo 14, January 31,1971.

 
 
 
S-IVB stage vents propellant during transposition and docking.

 
 
 
 LM-8 during Checkout just prior to descending to the Moon .

 
 
 
 View  from LM-8 window of "Fra Mauro" landing site.

 
 
 
 
 
 Commander Allen Shepard and U.S. flag.

 
 
 
 LM-8 "Antares" on rugged Moon surface.

 
 
 
 
 The Modular Equipment Transporter tracks in the Lunar dust and LM-8.

 
 
 
 
 
 The Modular Equipment Transporter.

 
 
 
 
 
 View from LM-8 window at liftoff. Notice parts of the descent stage being blown away by the force of the ascent engine.

 
 
 
 
 Astronaut Ed Mitchell is assisted out of the Command Module after Splash down.