Apollo 14 Research Paper

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Md Milad Hussain
Stephen Tuttle
PHYSICS 1404 - Solar Astronomy
5th February 2017
Apollo 14 Mission
The great mission called The Apollo 14 mission, which was the eighth mission to the moon from the United State. Also, it was the third mission to the moon to land on. It was a great mission because it was finals “H mission” which had targeted to land on the moon and stay there for at least two days with “lunar EVAS”. In January 31, 1971 was a great day for United State because, the lunar EVAS start mission on this day at 4:04:02 p.m. with the commander “Mr. Alan Shepard, Pilot Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell”. It was about a 40 minute delay from the local time due to some weather …show more content…

They collected almost 90 pounds soil and rocks. The rocks and soil samples they bring back from the moon was scheduled for almost 187 to go for further study in the United State as well as other countries. During the lunar activities on the moon, especially science activities managed by the pilot Stuart Roosa. He had some difficult experienced while he was taking some photographs in the Descartes places. His difficulties was with the “high resolution photo, camera setting, motion that help to landing site to plan for Apollo 16”. After all the experiments finished, they were set to lift off from the moon’s surface. It was almost on schedule while taking too off the from the moon. On February 9th Module Kitty Hawk marked down very safely to the earth about at 4;05 p.m. in the Pacific Ocean. The duration after they launch was exactly 9 days and 2 minutes. They landed about 1.02 miles away from the targeted point and 765 miles away from the Samoa, and just 4 miles from the ship. The total mission duration was from the liftoff to marked down about 216 hours, 2 minutes. It was a great mission for the United State and will leaded more mission to be succeeded like Apollo

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