Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, part of the Apollo 14 mission to the Moon, died on Thursday, February 4, 2016. He was 85. Mitchell was the 6th man to walk on the Moon, and piloted the Lunar Lander. He died on the eve of the 45th anniversary of that walk, which took place on February 5, 1971. Mitchell, Alan Shepard (who also walked on the surface) and Stuart Roosa made up the Apollo 14 team, which launched on January 31, 1971. Apollo 14 mission fact: the Command module was named Kitty Hawk, and the Lunar Module was Antares.
In later years, Mitchell ran into trouble with NASA, for attempting to auction off a camera he and his team used on the Moon, claiming it was given to him as a souvenir. The camera was eventually donated to the National Air & Space Museum. On September 20, 2012 Congress enacted H.R. 4158, confirming full ownership rights of artifacts to astronauts on Apollo (and Mercury and Gemini) space missions.
Mitchell was the founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) for the purpose of consciousness research and other "related phenomena." He was very interested in UFO's and at one time claimed that he was "90 percent sure that many of the thousands of UFOs, recorded since the 1940s, belong to visitors from other planets."
In later years, Mitchell ran into trouble with NASA, for attempting to auction off a camera he and his team used on the Moon, claiming it was given to him as a souvenir. The camera was eventually donated to the National Air & Space Museum. On September 20, 2012 Congress enacted H.R. 4158, confirming full ownership rights of artifacts to astronauts on Apollo (and Mercury and Gemini) space missions.
Mitchell was the founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) for the purpose of consciousness research and other "related phenomena." He was very interested in UFO's and at one time claimed that he was "90 percent sure that many of the thousands of UFOs, recorded since the 1940s, belong to visitors from other planets."
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