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  Apollo 14 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the Apollo program and the third mission to land on the Moon.
The Apollo 14 astronauts were the last lunar explorers to be quarantined on their return from the Moon.
It was used on the remaining three Apollo flights and is used on both the U.S. and Russian spacesuits on both the Space Shuttle and International Space Station.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apollo_14   (1215 words)

  
 Apollo/Skylab A7L - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The A7L Apollo and Skylab spacesuit is the primary pressure suit worn by NASA astronauts for Project Apollo, the three manned Skylab flights, and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project between 1968 and the termination of the Apollo program in 1975.
For the last three Apollo lunar flights Apollos 15, 16, and 17, the CDR and LMP started wearing a new moonwalking suit designed for longer duration J-series missions, in which three EVAs would be conducted and the lunar rover (LRV) would be used for the first time.
As a note, the ASTP A7L-B suit were the only Apollo suit to use the "worm" logo, a logo that became familiar with all of NASA's pressure, space, and flight suits and all Space Shuttle orbiters between 1981 and 2000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apollo/Skylab_A7L   (851 words)

  
 Project Apollo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Project Apollo was a series of human spaceflight missions undertaken by the United States of America (NASA) using the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn launch vehicle, conducted during the years 1961–1975.
Apollo returned 381.7kg (841.5 lb) of rocks and other material from the Moon; much is stored at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston.
Like Apollo, the CEV will fly a lunar orbit rendezvous mission profile, but unlike Apollo, the lander, known as the Lunar Surface Access Module, will be launched separately on the Ares V rocket, a rocket based on both Space Shuttle and Apollo technologies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apollo_program   (3767 words)

  
 APOLLO MISSION CONTROL PHOTO PLUS
Ground level view of the Apollo 14 (Spacecraft 110/Lunar Module 8/Saturn 509) space vehicle leaving Launch Complex 39's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to begin its slow trip to Pad A. The Saturn V stack and its mobile launch tower are moved by a huge crawler-transporter.
Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, Apollo 14 lunar module pilot, whose shadow is in the foreground, photographs a group of large boulders near the rim of Cone Crater.
Apollo 14 crewmen Rosa in the life raft on the left and Mitchell on the right as Commander Alan Shepard is assisted out of the Command Module by the Navy para- rescue man.
www.apollomissionphotos.com /index_ap14_reissue.html   (2027 words)

  
 Apollo 14   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Apollo lunar surface experiments package (ALSEP) was placed on the surface of the moon, and samples of the lunar surface were acquired.
The Apollo 14 spacecraft was launched on January 31, 1971, and was injected into lunar orbit on February 4.
The Apollo 14 command module "Kitty Hawk" is currently on display as part of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum' travelling exhibit.
lunar.arc.nasa.gov /history/timeline/info/apollo1401.htm   (302 words)

  
 Apollo 14
The eighth manned mission of the Apollo Project and the third to reach the surface of the Moon.
Launch of Apollo 14 was postponed about three months to allow changes to the flight plan and hardware following the experience of Apollo 13.
Concurrent with Apollo 14, the Russian Lunokhod 1 probe, operated by remote ground commands, was exploring another part of the lunar surface.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/A/Apollo_14.html   (511 words)

  
 Welcome To Spacecraft Films   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Apollo 14 stands as a turning point in the first lunar explorations - when man moved from learning to reach the moon to learning to live and work there.
On Apollo 14, the crew experienced difficulty in docking, which threatened to end their lunar landing attempt.
Apollo 14 carried a number of inflight demonstrations dealing with the microgravity environment.
www.spacecraftfilms.com /apollo14cde.html   (866 words)

  
 Apollo 14
Apollo 14 was the third mission in which humans walked on the lunar surface.
Apollo 14 was launched on 31 January 1971 from pad 39A of Kennedy Space Center on a Saturn V. On 5 February 1971 Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
Performance of the spacecraft, the third of the Apollo H-series missions, was good for most aspects of the mission.
www.apolloexplorer.co.uk /apollo14.htm   (225 words)

  
 Apollo 14 quiz -- free game
Apollo 14 experienced the first launch delay of the Apollo program.
Apollo 14 was the first of two lunar landing missions to use the Modularized Equipment Transporter (MET).
Apollo 14 was the first lunar landing mission to include which of these surface experiments?
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=154146   (154 words)

  
 John F. Kennedy Space Center - Apollo 17
This site was picked for Apollo 17 as a location where rocks both older and younger than those previously returned from other Apollo missions and from the Luna 16 and 20 missions might be found.
Scientific objectives of the Apollo 17 mission included geological surveying and sampling of materials and surface features in a preselected area of the Taurus-Littrow region, deploying and activating surface experiments, and conducting inflight experiments and photographic tasks during lunar orbit and transearth coast (TEC).
Apollo 17 was the last lunar landing mission.
www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov /history/apollo/apollo-17/apollo-17.htm   (792 words)

  
 Apollo 14 Summary
Apollo 14 was launched on January 31, 1971.
And in the case of Apollo 14, the crew was particularly pressed for time.
Apollo 14 was an important bit of preparation for the sophisticated Rover missions with which the Apollo series ended.
www.solarviews.com /eng/apo14.htm   (3279 words)

  
 Space Mission Patches - Apollo 14 Patch
The backup crew for Apollo 14 was Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Joseph Engle.
The Apollo 14 backup crew patch -- several of these were secreted in the Apollo 14 spacecraft for the primary crew to find after launch.
This embroidered version of the backup crew patch is, it is claimed, one of the patches that actually was on board Apollo 14 during the mission.
genedorr.com /patches/Apollo/Ap14.html   (737 words)

  
 Apollo 13
Apollo 14 would visit the site intended for exploration by Apollo 13, but it would go there as the last of the intermediate exploration missions.
Apollo 12 was moved up from September 18 to September 13, 1969; and Apollo 13 was moved up from December 1 to November 10.
Payload: Apollo CSM 109 / Apollo LM 7 / ALSEP / S-IVB-508.
www.astronautix.com /flights/apollo13.htm   (3658 words)

  
 Apollo 14 Lunar Samples Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Apollo 14 landing site was in the Fra Mauro formation, which is material ejected by the impact that produced the Imbrium Basin.
Basalts are dark-colored rocks that solidified from molten lava and consist primarily of the minerals pyroxene and plagioclase.
Generally, the Apollo 14 basalts are similar to basalts found in mare regions studied on other Apollo missions.
www.lpi.usra.edu /expmoon/Apollo14/A14_sampact.html   (475 words)

  
 Apollo 14 mission history - Detailed account of the Apollo 14 mission
The Apollo 14 mission attracted widespread interest, in part because of its predecessor's near disaster, but also because its popular commander, Alan Shepard, was making a comeback after ten years.
After Apollo 13 the board's scientific advisers almost unanimously agreed that the Fra Mauro site still rated the high priority it had been given; they recommended sending Apollo 14 there instead of Littrow, and the Apollo site selection board agreed.
Apollo 14 successfully concluded the intermediate stage of lunar exploration, closing a period in which the progress made in mission planning and operations exceeded expectations.
www.thespaceplace.com /history/apollo/apollo14.html   (1064 words)

  
 Apollo 14   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Apollo 14 astronauts were last lunar explorers to be quarantined on return from the Moon.
Apollo 14 may be best known for Alan Shepard's return to space (and perhaps his golf shot on the moon).
This mission was the first to be fully transmitted in colour from start to finish (the Apollo 12 crew accidently pointed their camera at the sun and ruined it).
www.freeglossary.com /Apollo_14   (721 words)

  
 NSSDC Master Catalog Display: Spacecraft
Apollo 14 was the third mission in which humans walked on the lunar surface and returned to Earth.
Apollo 14 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on 9 February 1971 at 21:05:00 UT (4:05:00 p.m.
The Apollo 14 CSM mass of 29,229 kg was the launch mass including propellants and expendables, of this the Command Module (CM-110) had a mass of 5758 kg and the Service Module (SM-110) 23,471 kg.
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov /database/MasterCatalog?sc=1971-008A   (1477 words)

  
 Jim Scotti's Apollo page
Apollo 15 and Apollo 17 were the only flights that came close enough to get long distance oblique views of the most prominant rayed crater on the Moon.
Apollo 14 astronaut Stu Roosa, the lonely 3rd member of the crew who stayed in orbit while his comrades landed on the moon, took a set of images of this interesting area which I have used to construct the following Anaglyph.
Apollo 13 was planned to land in the highlands of Fra Mauro, but an explosion in an oxygen tank 200,000 miles from Earth turned the flight into a fight for survival.
pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu /~jscotti/apollo.html   (3566 words)

  
 Thirty Years Ago: Apollo 14"s Narrow Escape   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Jim Lovell and his crew almost lost their lives when an explosion crippled Apollo 13 on the way to the Moon, and Shepard -- along with hundreds of others in Houston -- worked to bring them home.
When it came time for Apollo14 to fly in early 1971, Shepard and his crew mates, rookies Stu Roosa and Ed Mitchell, were acutely aware that they could not afford to fail; for NASA to recover from Apollo 13's brush with disaster, Apollo 14 would have to be successful.
Apollo 14 would feature a landing in the Moon's Fra Mauro highlands, where geologists suspected Shepard and Mitchell would collect the oldest rocks yet found on the Moon.
www.space.com /news/spacehistory/a14_retrospective_010131.html   (1076 words)

  
 Apollo 14
Apollo 14 spacecraft on display at the US Astronaut Hall Of Fame, located in Titusville, Florida.
Apollo 14 was the mission that NASA simply had to have to show that space travel could be a relatively routine event and reestablish the confidence of the American public following the Apollo 13 accident.
While the Apollo 14 landing did have some glitches, the flight was nearly flawless.
www.visi.com /~jweeks/spacecraft/apollo14.html   (357 words)

  
 Space Cowboy Saloon
The story of how the crews were assigned to Apollos 13 and 14 is long and involved, and rather controversial.
After the cancellations of Apollos 18, 19, and 20, nobody ever landed at Marius Hills (although it was one of the prime candidates for Apollo 15), the great crater Copernicus, or at Davy.
Apollo 14 is on the way to the Fra Mauro Highlands.
groups.msn.com /spacecowboysaloon/apollo14underconstruction.msnw   (1166 words)

  
 Apollo 14 NASA Mission Reports
Apollo 14, The NASA Mission Reports comes with a bonus Windows CDROM featuring NASA movies, hundreds of images, Quicktime VR and an exclusive interview with Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell.
After undergoing treatment the "Icy Commander" was bumped to the top of the flight roster and appointed to command the flight of Apollo 14 to the Fra Mauro highlands of the Moon.
Apollo 14 returned to the Earth with a treasure trove of lunar data and over 100 pounds of moon rocks.
www.countdowncreations.com /misrepa14.htm   (262 words)

  
 Apollo 14
Their mission was to land on the Moon and carry out experiments on it surface, similar to those of Apollo 12.
Four days later, the Apollo 14 lunar module touched down in Fra Mauro, which had been the destination of the ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft.
Apollo 14 safely returned to Earth on Feb. 9, 1971.
www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/space_missions/apollo14.html&edu=elem   (174 words)

  
 Apollo 14
NASA was canceling Apollo missions 15 and 19 because of congressional cuts in FY 1971 NASA appropriations, Administrator Thomas O. Paine announced in a Washington news conference.
The space vehicle for the Apollo 14 mission was determined ready for launch on January 31.
Payload: Apollo CSM 110 / Apollo LM 8 / ALSEP / S-IVB-509.
www.astronautix.com /flights/apollo14.htm   (4067 words)

  
 Apollo 18 Archive
There were originally 3 more Apollo missions scheduled to fly to the Moon in the initial Apollo plan, all were cancelled due to budgetary constraints.
The flights planned for Apollo 15 and Apollo 19 were cancelled in September, 1970, the remaining missions were then renumbered 15 through 17.
Harrison Schmitt was reassigned as Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 17 after his mission was cancelled, presumably replacing Joe Engle, who was part of the Apollo 14 backup crew (with Cernan and Evans).
www.skyimagelab.com /apollo18.html   (344 words)

  
 Skylights: Apollo 14 Astronaut in Memphis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Apollo 14 astronaut Ed Mitchell spoke at White Station High School on January 24, 2005, to a big crowd of Memphis City School students about his mission into space.
Mitchell explained his crew was scheduled to be on Apollo 13 but weren’t allowed to go when a crewmate was exposed to measles.
They had to wait until Apollo 14, but they were very grateful.
www.craigmont.org /mitchell.htm   (211 words)

  
 Apollo 14 Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Impact occurred between Apollo 12 and 14 seismometers.
From NASA SP-272, Apollo 14 Preliminary Science Report.
The Apollo 14 landing site is the same site selected for the aborted Apollo 13 mission.
www.si.edu /harcourt/nasm/Apollo/AS14/Apollo14_fact.html   (437 words)

  
 APOLLO
APOLLO measures the round-trip travel time of laser pulses bounced off the lunar retroreflectors to a precision of a few picoseconds, corresponding to about one millimeter of precision in range to the moon.
A total of four lunar retroreflectors are functional: three Apollo reflectors from Apollo 11, 14, and 15 (three times bigger than 11 and 14), and one French-built, Soviet landed (unmanned) unit from the Luna 21 mission.
APOLLO has benefited from the professional expertise of: Larry Carey, Peter Doherty, Erik Swanson, Sterling Fisher, Tim van Wechel, Allan Myers, Mark Klaene, Russell Owen, and Jeff Morgan.
physics.ucsd.edu /~tmurphy/apollo/apollo.html   (961 words)

  
 Apollo 14   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Apollo".
The Glasgow Apollo was Scotland's premier rock venue.
Welcome to the only website dedicated to the memory of the world famous rock and pop venue, the Glasgow Apollo.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Apollo_14.html   (335 words)

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