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Stuart Roosa

The LM Antares heading to the lunar surface

Apollo 14, January 31 - February 9, 1971, orbit 12

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in) and with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS14-74-10210” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with three filing holes in top margin

469 b
Alan Shepard or Edgar Mitchell

The CSM Kitty Hawk in lunar orbit

Apollo 14, January 31 - February 9, 1971, orbit 12, 103:51:24 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS14-66-9219” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with three filing holes in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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469 a
“Computer and radar glitches aboard Antares initially threatened the descent to the surface. However the problems were resolved, and Shepard and Mitchell safely landed their spacecraft on the Moon on February 5, 1971” (Jacobs, p. 91).

“The both of us knew we were going to land. Even when the landing radar didn’t come in, it was pretty certain to pitch over, and if we were in any sort of position, we’ve landed anyhow. We’re not going to get down to eighteen thousand feet and not take a look. Regardless of what Houston says,” said Edgar Mitchell (Chaikin, Voices, p.54).

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The photograph was taken from the LM Antares after undocking in lunar orbit. While Alan Shepard, Commander, and Edgar Mitchell, Lunar Module Pilot, descended in the LM to explore the Fra Mauro region of the Moon, Stuart Roosa, Command Module Pilot, remained with the CSM “Kitty Hawk” in lunar orbit.

103:51:19 Shepard (Antares): Okay, Stu. We have you and have the camera on, and you look mighty pretty out there.
103:51:24 Roosa (Kitty Hawk): Yes. I’ve been taking a few shots of you there. Pretty impressive.

“I think this solo aspect of being in that spacecraft by yourself, being 250,000 miles away from Earth, you feel fairly lonely. A lot of mixed emotions. None of which is fear. I guess, some wonderment. Awe, I suppose, thankfulness that you’re there, that you have the opportunity to experience that.”
Stuart Roosa (Chaikin, Voices, p. 106)