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Apollo 14 was the third lunar landing, the last of the H series missions, and marked the return to space by America’s first astronaut in space, Alan Shepard. Apollo 14 featured Stuart Roosa as the CM pilot and Edgar Mitchell as the LM pilot, both on their first and, as it turned out, only space missions. With two space rookies, and one astronaut with only a suborbital 15 min space ride under his belt, the crew of the Apollo 14 were affectionately called “The Rookies.”
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Chen, J.L. (2014). Apollo 14. In: How to Find the Apollo Landing Sites. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06456-7_6
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