During the Apollo 14 mission, astronauts Edgar Mitchell and Alan Shepard showcased their playful spirit while traversing the lunar surface. Mitchell demonstrated his javelin skills by hurling a ...
Apollo 13 in April, 1970, was a near-disaster. An oxygen tank aboard the spacecraft exploded, taking away the opportunity to make NASA’s third lunar landing and very nearly killing the three ...
Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard paused near the end of the mission's second moonwalk on February 6, 1971 and attached a Wilson six-iron club head to the handle of a lunar sample collection tool. It ...
In 1970, we reported how Apollo 14 astronauts Alan B. Shephard and Edgar D. Mitchell would have made it to the top of Cone Crater during their second exploration of the Moon if they had not been ...
As NASA prepares for the Artemis II launch, its first mission to the moon since 1972, WPBF 25 News is taking a look back at the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 70s. Longtime Palm Beach County ...
On Jan. 31, 1971, the city of Durango made history when one of its own was launched on the third lunar mission in the role of command module pilot. Apollo 14 was NASA astronaut Stuart A. Roosa’s one ...