Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and the lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell left their crewmate Stuart Roosa in the command module and descended down to the moon in the lunar module Antares.
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On February 5, 1971, the Apollo 14 Lunar Module touched down on the moon's Fra Mauro highlands, with Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell onboard. (Stuart Roosa piloted the command module.) Liftoff occurred 33 hours later. Famously, Alan Shepard hit two golf balls on the moon at the end of the last EVA. (Image credit: NASA)
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Aboard a NASA motor vessel retriever, the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission prime crew —(from the left) Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, command module pilot Stuart A. Roosa, and lunar module pilot Edgar D. Mitchell, — pose with a command module trainer during water egress training in the Gulf of Mexico on Oct. 24, 1970. (Image credit: NASA)
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To train for the low-gravity conditions on the lunar surface, astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., pulls the modular equipment transporter aboard and Air Force KC-135. His crewmate, Edgar D. Mitchell, joins him for the training. (Image credit: NASA)
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During the Apollo 14 lunar excursion, astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell uses the traverse map to move across the lunar surface. Lunar dust has visibly collected on his boots and the legs of his spacesuit. (Image credit: NASA)
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This photograph taken by astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell during the second EVA of the Apollo 14 mission exhibits a near-panoramic view of the lunar landscape. Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., walks toward Antares, and lunar rocks and astronaut bootprints are visible in the foreground. (Image credit: NASA)
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Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell pans the lunar surface with a television camera during a moonwalk. Fellow astronaut and Apollo 14 Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr., snapped this image of his crewmate. (Image credit: NASA)
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On Feb. 6, 1971, astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell photographed his own shadow with a group of large boulders on the lunar surface near the Cone Crater rim. The rocks are an interesting brown and white mix of color. Mitchell collected a sample with the hammer. (Image credit: NASA)
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Apollo 14 astronauts, sealed inside a mobile quarantine facility, greet the press and USS New Orleans crew. The three astronauts successfully completed their 10-day lunar landing mission with a splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean about 800 nautical miles from American Samoa. (Image credit: NASA)
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On the lunar Fra Mauro Highlands, Apollo 14 Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr., stands with the U.S. flag during his first moonwalk. In the image, shadows of the lunar module Antares (left), astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell and the S-band Antenna (right) surround the moonwalker. (Image credit: NASA)
Their descent was a little chaotic. A faulty switch was sending "abort" signals to the landing module's computer, and NASA had to reprogram the computer before they could land. Then the landing radar failed to measure the module's altitude and descent speed.
The problem fixed itself just in time, and Shepard manually landed the spacecraft right on target.
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Several errors on Challenger. It did not explode and the SRB were not destructed . Watch the video. The hot gas cut a strut. Which caused the SRB to cock. The slip stream then broke off the SRB. The the fuel escaped and mixed and burned. Challenger cabin was whole and crew was alive when it hit the water. No ejection seats. Very much like the NASA cargo Dragon that was lost. Dragon survived but no software to use the parachutes. If a Shuttle could abort, it would have separated and glided to a landing at KSC. Challenger was damaged too bad to do that though. NASA said never again with no escape system. NASA will never use Star Ship for crew since it will not have an escape system(Musk said).
Also the fuel in the SRB contained a lot of rubber.
Also the fuel in the SRB contained a lot of rubber.