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Apollo 14 and Moon of Johnson Space Center (JSC) and Texas
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Activity in the Mission Cont
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Activity in the Mission Control Center during Apollo 14 |
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Two individuals are examining a seismic reading in the Mission Control Center's Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package (ALSEP) Room during the Apollo 14 S-IVB impact on the moon. Dr. Maurice Ewing (left) is the Director of the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory at Columbia University. David Lammlein, a Columbia graduate student, is on the right (17609), Partial view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center at the time the Apollo 14 S-IVB stage impacted on the lunar surface. The flight director's console in in the foregroune. Eugene F. Kranz, Chief of the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) Flight Control Division, is in the right foreground. Seated at the console is Glynn S. Lunney, Head of the Flight Directors Office, Flight Control Division. Facing the camera is Gerald D. Griffin, Flight Director of the Third (Gold) team (17610). |
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1971-02-04 |
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Apollo 14 crewmen show off l
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Apollo 14 crewmen show off lunar rocks during meeting with newsmen |
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The Apollo 14 crewmen show off some of the largest of the lunar rocks which they brought back from the Moon during a through-the-glass meeting with newsmen in the Crew Reception Area of the Luanr Receiving Laboratory at the Manned Spacecraft Center. Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. (right) leans over to view a large basketball-size rock which Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell points out. Astronaut Stuart A. Roosa looks on (near center of the photograph). Four of the 14 men quarantined with the Apollo 14 crew look on in the background (20373), Mitchell points toward some walnut and potoato-size rocks taken from the tote bag at left while Shepard stands near a large basketball-size sample (20374), Mitchell (left) holds up a tote bag in which some of the lunar samples were stowed while Shepard looks on (20375). |
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1971-02-19 |
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View of Apollo 14 sample no.
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View of Apollo 14 sample no. 14414,2 |
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A close-up view of Apollo 14 sample no. 14414,2, a fine lunar powder-like material under examination in the Sterile Nitrogen Atmospheric Processing (SNAP) line in the Luanr Receiving Laboratory (LRL) at the Manned Spacecraft Center. Scientists are currently making preliminary analyses of material brought back from the moon by the crew of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission. |
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1971-02-12 |
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Technicians examine largest
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Technicians examine largest lunar rock sample collected |
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Three Brown and Root/Northrop technicians in the Nonsterile Nitrogen Laboratory in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) peer through glass at the much-discussed basketball size rock which Apollo 14 crewmen brought back from the Fra Mauro area of the Moon. They are, left to right, Linda Tyler, Nancy L. Trent and Sandra Richards (21244), Dr. Daniel Anderson, an aerospace technologist and test director in the LRL, looks at basketball size rock through a microscope (21245). |
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1971-02-24 |
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