Apollo 14 was the fourth crewed moon landing mission (but the third to touch down, since Apollo 13 didn't make it all the way) and is most famous for being the first and only mission in which an ...

Another successful moon landing would restore the prestige of the agency and to help ensure funding for future Apollo and post-Apollo missions. The Apollo 14 crew consisted of Commander Alan ...

The Apollo 14 landing site in the highlands of Fra Mauro appears in this image made with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter on Nov. 28, 2009.

Shepard took a few moments during the Apollo 14 landing to show off his hobby during a live broadcast from the lunar surface on Feb. 6, 1971. He took two shots, with the second ball going "miles ...

On July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 capsule splashed down, and the astronauts were brought to the USS Hornet. "This year, on ...

Carol Mersch looks over the certificate she received along with a copy of a microfilm Bible that flew in orbit around the moon on Apollo 14 during an interview in her home in Tulsa, Okla., Tue ...

The Apollo 14 landing site as seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA. Launched June 18, the Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter braked into an initially elliptical orbit around the moon on June 23.

The Apollo spacecraft, developed by NASA for the legendary Moon missions, was made up of three key components: the Command ...

Apollo 14, which comprised astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell, launched on Jan. 31, 1971 and landed on the Moon on Feb. 5, 1971. The mission’s command module splashed down ...

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 ...

On February 5, 1971, the Apollo 14 mission became the third manned mission to land on the moon, with astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell landing in the Fra Mauro highlands.