While Shepard and Mitchell were on the surface, Roosa remained in lunar orbit<\/a> aboard the Command\/Service Module<\/a>Kitty Hawk<\/i>, performing scientific experiments and photographing the Moon, including the landing site of the future Apollo 16<\/a>mission. He took several hundred seeds on the mission, many of which were germinated<\/a> on return, resulting in the so-called Moon trees<\/a>. Shepard, Roosa, and Mitchell landed in the Pacific Ocean<\/a>on February 9.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On this day in 1971, Apollo 14 landed on the moon. From Wikipedia: “Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the United StatesApollo program, and the third to land on the Moon. It was the last of the “H … Continue reading ![\"apollo](\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2015\/02\/apollo-14-300x225.jpg\")
<\/a>Commander Alan Shepard<\/a>, Command Module Pilot<\/a> Stuart Roosa<\/a>, and Lunar Module Pilot<\/a> Edgar Mitchell<\/a> launched on their nine-day mission on January 31, 1971 at 4:04:02 pm local time after a 40 minute, 2 second delay due to launch site weather restrictions, the first such delay in the Apollo program.[2]<\/a><\/sup> Shepard and Mitchell made their lunar landing on February 5 in the Fra Mauro formation<\/a>; this had originally been the target of the aborted Apollo 13<\/a> mission. During the two lunar EVAs<\/a>, 42 kilograms (93\u00a0lb) of Moon rocks<\/a> were collected and severalsurface experiments<\/a>, including seismic studies, were performed. Shepard famously hit two golf balls<\/a> on the lunar surface with a makeshift club he had brought from Earth<\/a>. Shepard and Mitchell spent about 33 hours on the Moon, with about 9\u00bd hours on EVA.<\/p>\n