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Edgar Mitchell

American - (NASA)

Deceased

Date of Birth: Sept. 17, 1930
Date of Death: Feb. 4, 2016


Edgar Dean "Ed" Mitchell was a United States Navy officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, ufologist and NASA astronaut. As the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon.

Saturn V | Apollo 14

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Jan. 31, 1971, 9:03 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission:

Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the Apollo Program. The third mission to land on the moon. This mission was a two day stay on the lunar surface and carried out two EVAs. Commanded by Alan Shepard, Command Module Pilot Stuart Rossa, and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell. During the two lunar EVAs, 42.80 kilograms of moon rock samples was collected.

Lunar Orbit
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Apollo LM | Apollo 14

Northrop Grumman Space Systems | United States of America
Fra Mauro Formation, Moon
Feb. 6, 1971, 6:48 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission:

Return flight of Apollo 14 from the Moon.

Lunar Orbit
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Administrator: Bill Nelson

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.


Falcon 9
Success
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Soyuz 2.1a
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Starship
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2 days ago
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Orbital Launch Mount A - SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA

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Falcon 9
Success
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GSAT-20 (GSAT-N2)
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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Falcon 9
Success
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Starlink Group 9-12
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A batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.