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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Stuart_RoosaStuart Roosa - Wikipedia

    Stuart Allen Roosa (August 16, 1933 – December 12, 1994) was an American aeronautical engineer, smokejumper, United States Air Force pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 14 mission.

  2. Jun 6, 2024 · Stuart A. Roosa (born August 16, 1933, Durango, Colorado, U.S.—died December 12, 1994, Falls Church, Virginia.) was an American astronaut. Roosa participated in the Apollo 14 mission (January 31–February 9, 1971), in which the uplands region of the Moon, 15 miles (24 km) north of the Fra Mauro crater, was explored.

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  3. Mar 26, 2013 · Stuart Roosa, the command module pilot on Apollo 14, had a varied career that spanned everything from fighting forest fires to piloting a spacecraft to the moon, to working with...

  4. Stuart A. Roosa, an astronaut who flew on the third lunar landing mission in 1971, died yesterday at Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., where he was visiting family members.

  5. www.nasa.gov › mission › apollo-14Apollo 14 - NASA

    Feb 2, 2024 · The Apollo 14 Command Module (CM), with astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander; Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot; and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, aboard, approaches touchdown in the South Pacific Ocean to successfully end a 10-day lunar landing mission.

  6. Feb 9, 2021 · Johnson Space Center. Feb 09, 2021. Article. On Feb. 9, 1971, the nine-day Apollo 14 Moon landing mission came to a successful conclusion with the splashdown of astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Stuart A. Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell aboard their Command Module (CM) Kitty Hawk in the south Pacific Ocean.

  7. Feb 1, 2021 · Article. The third Moon landing mission began on Jan. 31, 1971, with the launch of Apollo 14. A giant Saturn V rocket lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) with the crew of Commander Alan B. Shepard, Command Module Pilot Stuart A. Roosa, and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar D. Mitchell strapped inside their capsule.