Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Somewhere in deep space, Ed Mitchell experienced a cosmic awakening that changed his life."I got to look out the window a lot," he ...

Edgar Dean Mitchell, D.Sc. (born September 17, 1930) is an American pilot, engineer, and astronaut. As the lunar module pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra ...

MIAMI — Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13’s “successful failure” and later devoted his life to ...

On Feb. 5. 1971, the Apollo 14 crew module landed on the moon. The crew members were Captain Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. (USN), commander; Major Stuart Allen Roosa (USAF), command module pilot; and ...

MYSTERY WIRE — With much of the nation’s attention on NASA with the new rover landing on Mars, this month also marks another milestone. It was 50 years ago this month that NASA launched and returned ...

Astronaut Edgar Dean Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, passed away in 2016. Mitchell's experience in space led him to found the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which explores the science ...

Edgar Dean Mitchell (September 17, 1930 – February 4, 2016) was a United States Navy officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, ufologist, and NASA astronaut. As the Lunar Module Pilot of ...

MIAMI – Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13’s “successful failure” and later devoted his life to ...

Former astronaut Edgar Mitchell arrives for the September 2007 premiere of the “In the Shadow of the Moon” at the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History in New York. Apollo 14 astronaut ...

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Edgar Dean Mitchell was born Sept. 17, 1930, in Hereford, Texas, and grew up working on his father's cattle ranch in New Mexico. He joined the Navy and got a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute ...