Apollo 14 landed on the Moon 55 years ago today



by Busy_Yesterday9455

19 Comments

  1. ChuckNorrisSleepOver on

    I remember listening to a record that my parents had of that when I was a kid. Simpler times.

  2. The team must’ve been like

    “You boys don’t have too much fun out there without me” – Neil Armstrong’s wife probably

  3. InfiniteWitness6969 on

    Ripping your pants so far from home… That’s not the best way to go down the stairs.

  4. So, we don’t know how many years ago they landed on the Moon 55? I didn’t even know earth had so many moons. 😬

  5. Candid_Bet9603 on

    Who put the camera there, how did they place the camera at the exact location where they would land.

  6. Apollo 14 is a hoot. Alan Shepard had to get an off-the-books surgery in order to qualify to fly to space again. Ed Mitchell conducted a secret ESP experiment from the module. It had something to do with looking at cards, noting the time and the card drawn, and when they compared notes they found the accuracy was somewhere around what would be expected for a random guess. Undaunted, Mitchell later founded an institute for parapsychological research, which the CIA later used as a front to funnel money to Uri Geller. On a firmer scientific ground, NASA lunar geologists were pleased with the geological samples brought back, but noticed Shepard and Mitchell were hesitant to voice what they were seeing in the moon rocks as they were doing their walks. They later determined the astronauts were afraid to say something wrong! Farouk el-baz and others tweaked their geological training for 15 as a result.