Edgar Dean Mitchell Astronaut
| Date of Birth: |
September 17, 1930 |
| Place of Birth: |
Hereford, Texas |
| Joined NASA: |
April 4, 1966 |
| Left NASA: |
October 5, 1972 |
| Space Flights: |
1 |
| Number of EVA's: |
2 |
| Total EVA Time: |
9 hours, 22 minutes, 31 seconds |
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MISSION ASSIGNMENTS
Apollo 9 Assignment: Support Crew
Apollo 10 Assignment: Back-up Lunar Module Pilot
Apollo 14 January 31 - February 7, 1971 Assignment: Lunar Module Pilot Flight Duration: 9 days, 1 minute
Apollo 16 Assignment: Back-up Lunar Module Pilot & Capcom
HIGHLIGHTS
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B.Sc., Industrial Management, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1952
B.Sc., Aeronautical Engineering, US Naval Postgraduate School, 1961
Ph.D., Aeronautics/Astronautics, MIT, 1964
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Joined the US Navy in 1952 and completed basic training in San Diego.
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Attended Officers Candidate School at Newport, Rhode Island, 1953, recieved wings at Hutchinson, Kansas 1954.
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Served in Okinawa, then in 1957 & 1958 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga.
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Research Project Pilot with the Naval Air Development Squadron until 1959.
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Chief of the Project Management Division of the Navy Field Office for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory(MOL) Project in 1964 and 1965.
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February 1971, became the sixth man on the moon as Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14 during a three day stay at the Fra Mauro landing site with his CDR, Alan Shepard.
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Retired from NASA and the USN and founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California, devoted to the study of, among other things, ESP and the paranormal.
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1984, co-founder of the Association of Space Explorers.
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Later, Chairman of the Board, Forecast Systems Inc., Provo, Utah.
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Author, "Psychic Exploration", 1974 and "The Way of the Explorer", 1996.
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