Flight record
2 flights on padside's record, all within 1971.
2Flights
6d 1hTime in space
9h 22mEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Edgar Dean "Ed" Mitchell was a United States Navy officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, ufologist and NASA astronaut. As the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Hereford
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology; U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School; Carnegie Mellon University; Naval Postgraduate School; United States Naval Academy; Artesia High School
- Awards
- International Space Hall of Fame; NASA Distinguished Service Medal; Presidential Medal of Freedom; Navy Distinguished Service Medal; United States Astronaut Hall of Fame
From Wikidata.
Flights
- Apollo LM | Apollo 14February 6, 1971 · 18:48 UTC
- Saturn V | Apollo 14January 31, 1971
Born 1930-09-17 · died 2016-02-04, aged 85