Edgar Mitchell Apollo Moonwalker Dies at 85 (silent video)

Edgar Mitchell Apol­lo Moon­walk­er Dies at 85 (silent video)



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For­mer astro­naut Edgar Mitchell (USN Capt. Ret.), who became the sixth man to walk on the moon dur­ing the Apol­lo 14 mis­sion to the high­lands of Fra Mau­ro, died on Feb. 4 in West Palm Beach, Flori­da at the age of 85. Mitchell’s death occurred on the eve of the 45th anniver­sary of his land­ing on the moon aboard the lunar mod­ule Antares with Apol­lo 14 Com­man­der Alan Shep­ard. Mitchell was born in Here­ford, Texas on Sept. 17, 1930, and earned mul­ti­ple degrees includ­ing a Doc­tor­ate of Sci­ence in aero­nau­tics and astro­nau­tics from the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy in 1964. Mitchell entered the Navy in 1952 and was select­ed by NASA as an astro­naut in April 1966. He was the lunar mod­ule pilot for the Apol­lo 14 mis­sion, his only space­flight, join­ing Shep­ard and com­mand mod­ule pilot Stu­art Roosa. On Feb. 5, 1971, Mitchell and Shep­ard guid­ed Antares to a bulls-eye land­ing at Fra Mau­ro, where they spent 33 hours and con­duct­ed two moon­walks to col­lect almost 100 pounds of moon rocks and invalu­able lunar soil sam­ples. Fol­low­ing the Apol­lo pro­gram, Mitchell retired from NASA and from the Navy to con­duct sci­en­tif­ic research in the field of human consciousness.



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