- Member of the Apollo 14 mission and went to the moon with' Alan Shepard' and Stuart Roosa. The command module was named Kitty Hawk and the lunar module was named Antares. They completed two EVAs or moonwalks totaling 33 hours on the moon and walked over 500 meters pulling a shopping cart full of tools and lunar samples.
- U.S. astronaut aboard Apollo 14.
- Moonwalker (Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 14, 1971).
- Conducted psi experiments during Apollo 14 moon mission. Looked at images on cards, which it was hoped would be "picked up" on Earth. Results were quite negative.
- Conducted the first ESP experiments from space.
- NASA selected him as an astronaut in 1966. He served on the support crew for Apollo 9 and as backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 10. He worked in the lunar module simulator at the Johnson Space Center during Apollo 13, developing procedures that helped bring the crew of the crippled spacecraft home.
- Mitchell and Shepard set mission records of the longest distance traversed on the lunar surface; the largest payload returned from the lunar surface; and the longest lunar stay time (33 hours). They were also the first to transmit color TV from the moon.
- He considered Artesia, New Mexico to be his hometown.
- He graduated with a B.S. in Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon in 1952, a B.S. in Aeronautics from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1961, and a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 1964.
- Edgar Mitchell was one of only twelve men to walk on the surface of the Moon. Mitchell joined Apollo 14 commander Alan Shephard, Jr., the first American in space, in the lunar module Antares, which touched down Feb. 5, 1971. They set mission records for the time of the longest distance traversed on the lunar surface; the largest payload returned from lunar surface; and the longest lunar stay time (33 hours). They were also the first to transmit color TV from the lunar surface.
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