Edgar Mitchell

Panoramic view of Fra Mauro Base from the LM window

Apollo 14, January 31 - February 9, 1971, post EVA 1, 119:42:01 GET

Unique hand mosaic of two vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based Kodak paper with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS14-66-9324 and AS14-66-9326” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, overall size 21.8 x 43.3cm
21.8 x 43.3cm

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The S-band antenna pointed at earth, the American flag (face-on to the TV camera which is at the top right), footprints, wheel tracks and the “Rickshaw”- type portable workbench, as seen by Mitchell from inside the LM, give evidence of a busy first extravehicular activity (EVA) period.

The two-wheeled cart Apollo Modularized Equipment Transporter (MET) is parked in the shadow of the S-Band antenna and covered with a sheet of foil material to protect the cameras and rock box between EVAs. The LM shadow and a LM thruster are in the foreground.

The astronauts couldn’t get a good night of sleep in their uncomfortable spacesuits between the two EVAS: “once they were stretched out in the hammocks, the tilt of the spacecraft became more and more obvious. Rationally, they knew they were okay; but, at intervals through the night they awoke from a half sleep and, in the light lunar gravity, had the uncomfortable feeling that the LM was tipping over. Several times during the night, one or the other of them felt that they had to push aside the window covers and, just to be certain, take a look outside” (from the ALSJ mission summary).