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Astronauts Shepard and Mitch
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Astronauts Shepard and Mitchell suited up for altitude tests |
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Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr. (right), commander, and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, are suited up for a manned altitude run in the Apollo 14 Lunar Module. |
| Date Taken |
1970-09-18 |
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View of Mission Control Cent
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View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 oxygen cell failure |
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Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., prime crew commander of the Apollo 14 mission, monitors communications between the Apollo 13 spacecraft and Mission Control Center (MCC). He is seated at a console in the Mission Operations Control Room of the MCC. The main concern of the moment was action taken by the Apollo 13 crewment to make corrections inside the spacecraft following discovery of an oxygen cell failure several hours earlier. |
| Date Taken |
1970-04-14 |
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Overall view of Mission Cont
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Overall view of Mission Control Center during Apollo 14 |
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Overall view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center at the Manned Spacecraft Center during the Apollo 14 transposition and docking maneuvers. The Apollo 14 Lunar Module, still attached to the Saturn IVB stage, can be seen on the large television monitor. |
| Date Taken |
1971-01-31 |
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Astronaut Alan Shepard near
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Astronaut Alan Shepard near Lunar Landing Training Vehicle prior to test |
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Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., stands near a Lunar Landing Training Vehicle (LLTV) prior to a test flight on Dec. 14, 1970. Shepard is the commander of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission. |
| Date Taken |
1970-12-14 |
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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). |
| Date Taken |
1971-02-04 |
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Technicians work with Apollo
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Technicians work with Apollo 14 lunar sample material in Lunar Receiving Lab. |
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Glove handlers work with freshly opened Apollo 14 lunar sample material in modularized cabinets in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at the Manned Spacecraft Center. The glove operator on the right starts to pour fine lunar material which he has just taken from a tote bag. This powdery sample was among the last to be revealed of the 90-odd pounds of material brought back to Earth by the Apollo 14 crewmen. |
| Date Taken |
1971-02-18 |
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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). |
| Date Taken |
1971-02-19 |
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Apollo 14 crewmembers sealed
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Apollo 14 crewmembers sealed inside a Mobile Quarantine Facility |
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Separated by aluminum and glass of their Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF), the Apollo 14 crewmen visit with their families and friends upon arriving at Ellington Air Force Base in the early morning hours of February 12, 1971. Looking through the MQF window are Astronats Alan B Shepard Jr. (left), Stuart A Roosa (right), and Edgar D. Mitchell. |
| Date Taken |
1971-02-12 |
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Technicians work with Apollo
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Technicians work with Apollo 14 lunar sample material in Lunar Receiving Lab. |
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Gary Meschi, left, and Jim Bacak, right, glove operators employed by Brown and Root/Northrop on the Manned Spacecraft Center site, work with newly-arrived Apollo 14 lunar sample material in the Sterile Nitrogen Atmospheric Processing (SNAP) line in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) at MSC. Pictured in a tray is Apollo 14 sample no. 14411. Dr. Don Morrison of the Planetary and Earth Sciences Division of the Science and Applications Directorate at MSC is in center background. |
| Date Taken |
1971-02-12 |
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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. |
| Date Taken |
1971-02-12 |
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Wide angle view of Mission C
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Wide angle view of Mission Control Center during Apollo 14 transmission |
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A wide angle overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center at the Manned Spacecraft Center. This view was photographed during the first color television transmission from the Apollo 14 Command Module. Projected on the large screen at the right front of the MOCR is a view of the Apollo 14 Lunar Module, still attached to the Saturn IVB stage. The Command and Service Modules were approaching the LM/S-IVB during transposition and docking maneuvers. |
| Date Taken |
1971-01-31 |
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Astronaut Edgar Mitchell add
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Astronaut Edgar Mitchell addresses MSC personnel and news media |
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Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, right, the Apollo 14 lunar module pilot, addresses JSC/MSC personnel and news media representatives and other visitors soon after he and his fellow crewmen were released from a 15-day confinement period in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory. Pictured with Mitchell in front of the LRL, MSC bldg 37, are Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., left, commander, and Stuart A Roosa, command module pilot, Mrs Mitchell is at right and Mrs. Roosa, near left. Roosa is flanked by his four children, left to right, Christopher A., Stuart A. Roosa Jr., John D. and Rosemary D. |
| Date Taken |
1971-02-26 |
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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). |
| Date Taken |
1971-02-24 |
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