Friday, February 5, 2016

Apollo 14 lands on the moon, 1971




The eighth manned mission to the moon, Apollo14, touched down on February 5, 1971.  Commander Alan Shepard, Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa, and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell blasted off January 31 and landed in the Fra Moura.  Shepard and Mitchell spent over nine hours total walking on the surface of the moon.  Alan Shepard hit two golf balls with a golf club he fashioned out of a six iron golf club head and a lunar excavation tool. 



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