#Stuart roosa

[stone-cold-groove]

Apollo 14 mission patch.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Apollo 14: Fra Mauro

On the Moon: Al Shepard and Edgar Mitchell

In lunar orbit: Stuart Roosa

TIME SINCE LAUNCH 135:08:17

— Houston, while you're looking that up, you might recognize what I have in my hand is the handle for the contingency sample return; it just so happens to have a genuine six iron on the bottom of it. In my left hand, I have a little white pellet that's familiar to millions of Americans. I'll drop it down. Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot here. — You got more dirt than ball that time. — Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again. — That looked like a slice to me, Al. — Here we go. Straight as a die; one more. [Silence] — Miles and miles and miles.

"The Moon: A History for the Future" - Oliver Morton

[tuxedomoon-64]

Stuart Roosa, Apollo14

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[planetaryalphabet]

Crew of Apollo 14 (1971)

From top to bottom: Edgar Mitchell, Stuart Roosa, Alan Shepard

[lonestarflight]

"An excellent view of the Apollo 14 Lunar Module (LM-8) Antares on the moon, as photographed during the first Apollo 14 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. While astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander, and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, descended in the LM to explore the moon, astronaut Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit."

Date: February 5, 1971

NASA ID: AS14-66-9278

[livingforstars]

Apollo 14 on the Moon - December 9th, 1995.

"The glare from the Sun reflects off the lunar module of the Apollo 14 mission to the Moon as it rests on the lunar surface in February of 1971. Astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell walked on the Moon's surface while astronaut Stuart Roosa piloted the orbiting command module. Coming only months after the abortive Apollo 13 mission, Apollo 14 was famous for long exploratory Moon walks, collecting samples of lunar bedrock from Cone Crater, deploying the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, and hitting golf balls. The slope rising to the rim of Cone Crater is visible at the left edge of the photo."

[titanicnerd-blog]

Those who have travelled to the moon:

Neil Armstrong

Edwin Aldrin Jr.

Michael Collins

Pete Conrad

Dick Gordon

Alan Bean

Jim Lovell

John Swigert

Fred Haise

Alan Shepherd

Stuart Roosa

Edgar Mitchell

Dave Scott

Al Worden

Jim Irwin

John Young

Ken Mattingly

Charlie Duke

Gene Cernan

Ron Evans

Jack Schmitt

Soon, there will be more names on this list: Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, Jeremy Hansen

[moonwatchuniverse]

Apollo 14 on the Moon … February 5, 1971, lunar EVA image showing Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard, standing near the MET = Modularized Equipment Transporter, and LMP Edgar Mitchell, in the background working at a sub-package of the ALSEP  = Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package. Note the cuff checklist on Shepard’s wrist and his NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster 145.012 chronograph on his left forearm. The red bands on the arms & legs of the A7LB spacesuit, distinguished the commander from the Lunar Module Pilot. These red stripes were introduced after Apollo 12, as post-flight Moonwalkers Bean & Conrad had difficulties identifying themselves on lunar surface photographs. Apollo 14 CMP Stuart Roosa and LMP Edgar Mitchell took their personal Rolex GMT-master 1675 pilot watch onboard their Moonflight. Apollo 14 Moonwalkers, Shepard and Mitchell conducted two lunar EVAs, the first 600 m westwards from LM and a second 2900 m roundtrip eastwards from the Lunar Module Antares. They stayed 33 hours on the lunar surface and collected 42 kilograms Moon rocks & samples. (Photo: NASA)

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nobody's pointed this out, so i will: i think the red stripes are reminiscent of the commander stripes they gave apollo astronauts on later missions

(pictured: david scott, commander of apollo 15, and the entire crew of apollo 14: CMP Stuart Roosa, CDR Alan Shepard, and LMP Ed Mitchell)

but we can get *more* niche into Apollo history! Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, had a special helmet for lunar EVA, to signify his navy service. famously, he never got to wear it on the lunar surface. but it's really similar to the design of skyfire's helmet as pictured above!

maybe the snoopy cap theory is more likely because this one's pretty out there, but it would be really cool.

Screaming bc I realized Skyfire looks like an astronaut!!! LOOK

His helm is shaped like the snoopy cap

AND

THE BIG BACKPACK! And the same marshmallow hands too djdkzhjz

Idk if it's intentional, but I absolutely adore it.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.31 (after 1945)

1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War. 1945 – World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed. 1945 – World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula. 1946 – Cold War: Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia). 1946 – The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par. 1949 – These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago. 1950 – President Truman orders the development of thermonuclear weapons. 1951 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 90 relating to the Korean War is adopted. 1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom. 1957 – Eight people (five total crew from two aircraft and three on the ground) in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet. 1958 – Cold War: Space Race: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt. 1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: The chimpanzee Ham travels into outer space. 1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program. 1968 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive. 1968 – Nauru gains independence from Australia. 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon. 1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize alleged war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit. 1978 – The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) goes on public display after being returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II. 1988 – Doug Williams becomes the first African American quarterback to play in a Super Bowl and leads the Washington Redskins to victory in Super Bowl XXII. 1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400. 2000 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard. 2001 – In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. 2001 – Two Japan Airlines planes nearly collide over Suruga Bay in Japan. 2003 – The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia. 2007 – Emergency officials in Boston mistakenly identified battery-powered LED placards depicting characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force as Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), causing a panic. 2009 – In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people. 2018 – Both a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse occur. 2020 – The United Kingdom's membership within the European Union ceases in accordance with Article 50, after 47 years of being a member state. 2023 – The last Boeing 747, the first wide-body airliner, is delivered.

[roversrovers]

Have you heard of Moon Trees?

They are trees that grew from very special seeds: Stuart Roosa carried hundreds of them in his personal kit when he orbited the Moon in 1971 with the Apollo 14 mission. After returning back to Earth, the seeds were germinated and planted across the US and even across the world.

Learn more about the Moon Trees and where you can find them here:

You can also support the conservation of the trees and their descendants here:

[planetaryalphabet]

Apollo 14 (January 31, 1971 – February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, the third to land on the Moon, and the first to land in the lunar highlands.

Commander Alan Shepard

Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa

Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell

[astronotmovie]

A relaxed astronaut. Stuart Roosa takes a moment during preparations for Apollo 14, Jan 1971. Mr. Roosa flew ‘Kitty Hawk’, the Command Module for the mission & orbited the moon 34 times as crew mates Edgar Mitchell & Alan Shephard walked on the moon. Roosa was 1 of 19 astronauts chosen in Group 5 by NASA in 1966. Following A14, he served as backup Command Module Pilot for Apollo 16 & 17.

[egglybagelface96]

Patches out for Apollo 14′s 50th....

[lonestarflight]

"Apollo 14 crew members sit in a life raft beside their Command Module (CM-110) in the South Pacific Ocean as they await a U.S. Navy helicopter SH-3A Sea King from Anti-Submarine Squadron Six (HS-6), which will take them aboard the USS NEW ORLEANS (LPH-11), prime recovery ship. The crew men are, from left to right, astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander; Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot; and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot. Two U.S. Navy underwater demolition team swimmers (one partially visible in the right upper corner) assist in the recovery operations."

Date: February 9, 1971

Naval History and Heritage Command: USN 1146625

NASA ID: S71-19475