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Apollo 14

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Launch Details

Date: 31 Jan 1971, 09:03 pm UTC

Rocket: Saturn V (Saturn)

Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Mission

Type: Human Exploration

Orbit: Lunar Orbit

Pad: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Mission Description

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.