Apollo 14 facts for kids
Shepard and the American flag on the Moon during Apollo 14 in February 1971
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| Mission type | Manned lunar landing |
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| Operator | NASA |
| Mission duration | 9 days, 1 minute, 58 seconds |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft |
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| Manufacturer | CSM: North American Rockwell LM: Grumman |
| Launch mass | 102,084 pounds (46,305 kg) |
| Landing mass | 11,481 pounds (5,208 kg) |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
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| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | January 31, 1971 |
| Rocket | Saturn V |
| Launch site | Kennedy LC-39A |
| End of mission | |
| Recovered by | USS New Orleans |
| Landing date | February 9, 1971 |
| Landing site | South Pacific Ocean 27°1′S 172°39′W / 27.017°S 172.650°W |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Selenocentric |
| Pericynthion | 16.9 kilometers (9.1 nmi) |
| Apocynthion | 108.9 kilometers (58.8 nmi) |
| Period | 120 minutes |
| Lunar orbiter | |
| Spacecraft component | Command and service module |
| Orbital insertion | February 4, 1971 |
| Orbital departure | February 7, 1971 |
| Orbits | 34 |
| Lunar lander | |
| Spacecraft component | Lunar module |
| Landing date | February 5, 1971 |
| Return launch | February 6, 1971 |
| Landing site | Fra Mauro 3°38′43″S 17°28′17″W / 3.64530°S 17.47136°WScript error: No such module "Celestial object quadrangle". |
| Sample mass | 42.80 kilograms (94.35 lb) |
| Surface EVAs | 2 |
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| Docking with LM | |
| Docking date | February 1, 1971 |
| Undocking date | February 5, 1971 |
| Docking with LM ascent stage | |
| Docking date | February 6, 1971 |
| Undocking date | February 6, 1971 |
  Left to right: Mitchell, Shepard, Roosa |
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Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the Apollo program. It was the third mission to land on the Moon. The nine-day mission left the Earth on January 31, 1971, and landed on the Moon on February 5. The Lunar Module landed in the Fra Mauro formation; this had been the target of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission. During the two walks on the Moon's surface, 93.2 lb (42 kg) of moon rock was collected. Several experiments, including seismic studies, were carried out. Commander Alan Shepard famously hit two golf balls on the lunar surface with a makeshift club he had brought from Earth. Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa took several hundred seeds on the mission, many of which were planted on return, resulting in the so-called Moon trees. The pilot of the Lunar Module was Dr. Edgar Mitchell.
LRO finds the site
In June 2009, the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to photograph the Apollo 14 landing site. The base of the lunar module and the astronauts footprints on the Moon's suface could be clearly seen.
Images for kids
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Shepard in front of the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, flown to simulate the landing
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Shepard (left) and Mitchell during geological training
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The Apollo 14 launch vehicle is rolled out from the Vehicle Assembly Building, November 9, 1970
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A close-up view of the Apollo 14 ALSEP Central Station deployed on the Moon
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Shepard and the MET
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Launch of Apollo 14
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Antares as seen from Kitty Hawk
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Mitchell studies a map while on the Moon
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Lunar surface television showing Shepard taking a couple of golf swings
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The "Big Bertha" rock (Lunar Sample 14321) was the third largest rock collected during the Apollo program.
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Kitty Hawk in lunar orbit
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Apollo 14 landing
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Apollo 14 space-flown silver Robbins medallion
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The command module Kitty Hawk at the Kennedy Space Center
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Apollo 14 landing site, 2009 photograph by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
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See also
In Spanish: Apolo 14 para niños
