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
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

  • B.Sc., Industrial Management, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1952
    B.Sc., Aeronautical Engineering, US Naval Postgraduate School, 1961
    Ph.D., Aeronautics/Astronautics, MIT, 1964

  • Joined the US Navy in 1952 and completed basic training in San Diego.

  • Attended Officers Candidate School at Newport, Rhode Island, 1953, recieved wings at Hutchinson, Kansas 1954.

  • Served in Okinawa, then in 1957 & 1958 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga.

  • Research Project Pilot with the Naval Air Development Squadron until 1959.

  • Chief of the Project Management Division of the Navy Field Office for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory(MOL) Project in 1964 and 1965.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 1984, co-founder of the Association of Space Explorers.

  • Later, Chairman of the Board, Forecast Systems Inc., Provo, Utah.

  • Author, "Psychic Exploration", 1974 and "The Way of the Explorer", 1996.