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Apollo 14

Saturn V

Sun, 31 Jan 1971 21:03:02 GMT

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Historical mission record

This page records Saturn V | Apollo 14 and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.

Source record updated Jun 14, 2023, 8:44 AM UTC. This is a source update, not a confirmed launch time.

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Mission status

Launch Successful

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Mission

Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the Apollo Program. The third mission to land on the moon. This mission was a two day stay on the lunar surface and carried out two EVAs. Commanded by Alan Shepard, Command Module Pilot Stuart Rossa, and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell. During the two lunar EVAs, 42.80 kilograms of moon rock samples was collected.

Launch vehicle: Saturn V
Mission type: Human Exploration
Destination orbit: Lunar Orbit
Spacecraft: LM Antares
Destination: Lunar Surface
Launch pad: Launch Complex 39A
Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Programs: Apollo

The vehicle

Published configuration and flight history.

Launch vehicle

Saturn V

The Saturn V was a human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973. Most notably, the Saturn V took the Apollo program to the Moon. It still remains the world's tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and is the only launch vehicle to take humans beyond LEO.

Height: 110.6 m
Diameter: 10.1 m
Stages: 3
Recorded launches: 13
First flight: 1967-11-09