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Apollo 14

Overview

Destination: Lunar Orbit
Mission: Human Exploration

Lunar Orbit Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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.

Saturn V

Family: Saturn
Configuration: V

The Saturn V was a human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973. Most notably, the Saturn V took the Apollo program to the Moon. It still remains the world's tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and is the only launch vehicle to take humans beyond LEO.

Specifications

Stages
3
Length
110.6 m
Diameter
10.1 m
Fairing Diameter
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Launch Mass
2970 T
Thrust
35100 kN

Family

Name
Saturn V
Family
Saturn
Variant
V
Alias
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Full Name
Saturn V

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
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Low Earth Orbit
140000 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Direct Geostationary
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Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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Apollo Kitty Hawk CSM-110

In-active Human Rated Crew On-board: 3 Crew Capacity: 3 Payload Capacity: 1050 kg

Destination: Lunar Orbit where the LM would detach and land on the Moon.

Serial Number: CSM-110

CSM-110 "Kitty Hawk" was an Apollo Command & Service Module used in the Apollo 14 mission.

Apollo Command/Service Module Details

Crew

Alan Shepard

Commander - American - ( NASA )

Status: Deceased

Date of Birth: Nov. 18, 1923
Date of Death: July 21, 1998

Stuart Roosa

Command Module Pilot - American - ( NASA )

Status: Deceased

Date of Birth: Aug. 16, 1933
Date of Death: Dec. 12, 1994

Edgar Mitchell

Lunar Module Pilot - American - ( NASA )

Status: Deceased

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

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Administrator: Bill Nelson Founded: 1958 Successes: 115 Failures: 20 Pending: 6

Agency Type: Government

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.

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