Edgar “Ed” Mitchell has not celebrated the 45 th anniversary of the lunar feat. The sixth man to walk on the moon, on 5 and 6 February 1971, died Thursday in Florida. He was 85 years old.
We obviously remembers less of the mission led by Mitchell that the output of Armstrong, but it was the first to have clear scientific aims, recalls the New . York Times and sports: Alan Shepard, the first American in space and the second member of Apollo 14 with Mitchell, took out a golf club, a 6 iron, and sent the ball over 230 meters ( a pro teases the 170 meters in land condition).
There remains no witnesses to the mission 14 (Stuart Roosa and Alan Shepard died in 1994 and 1998), but the other five lunar missions launched between 1969 and 1972 to have passed the moon landing have all at least one member of the crew still alive: Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11, 1969), Al Bean (Apollo 12, 1969), Dave Scott (Apollo 15, 1971), John watts Young and Charlie Duke (Apollo 16, 1972), Gene Cernan and Jake Schmitt (Apollo 17, 1972).
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