Apollo 14 was a return to flight after the near Apollo 13 disaster. It saw Alan Shepard, the first American in space, return to flight after a decade.

Apollo 14 was the fourth crewed moon landing and is most famous for being the first and only mission in which an ... Preparing for a Test Flight. NASA . On Dec. 14, 1970, astronaut Alan B ...

Every Apollo flight saw upgraded and improved hardware, longer duration stays on the Moon, ... Apollo 14 inherited Apollo 13’s landing site: the hilly Fra Mauro region.

The Apollo 14 mission marked Alan Shepard's return to space. ... Roosa became the first Apollo astronaut assigned to a flight crew without having completed a backup assignment first.

The Apollo 14 crew consisted of Commander Alan Shepard Jr., Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell — this would be the first spaceflight for Roosa and Mitchell.

Humans on Earth would not be able to witness men walking on the moon in real time until Apollo 14, over a year later. The rest of the Apollo 12 mission was an outstanding success.

Lessons from Apollo 14. The Apollo program should be remembered as much for landing the first humans on the Moon as it is for countless demonstrations of problem solving and ingenuity, of ...