Apollo 14

"Kitty Hawk "
NSSDC ID: 71-008A

Description:
This spacecraft was the third Apollo mission to land humans on
the moon. On February 5, 1971, the Apollo 14 lunar module (LM)
landed two men (Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. and LM pilot
Edgar D.Mitchell) in the hilly upland region 24 km north of the rim
of Fra Mauro crater, while the command and service module
(CSM) (piloted by Stuart A. Roosa) continued in a lunar equatorial
orbit. The Apollo lunar surface experiments package (ALSEP)
was placed on the surface of the moon, and samples of the
lunar surface were acquired. Various frames of 16-mm, 35-mm,
70-mm, and 5-in.mapping film were exposed by the astronauts
from the LM and CM and on the lunar surface. Performance was
good for most aspects of the mission. The Apollo 14 spacecraft
was launched on January 31, 1971, and was injected into lunar
orbit on February 4. The LM landed on the moon on February 5
and returned to the command module on February 6. The CSM
continued in a near circular orbit at approximately 100 km altitude.
The command module left lunar orbit on February 7 and returned
to earth on February 9, 1971. The mission lasted a total of 216
hours, 1 minute, 57 seconds. Information on the Apollo 14 LM
is contained in record 71-008C. 
The Apollo 14 command module "Kitty Hawk" is currently on
display as part of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum'
 travelling exhibit. 

Crew:
Alan B. Shepard, Jr., commander
Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot
Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot