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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.
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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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.
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...
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.
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Dec 13, 1994 · 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.
Stuart Roosa was one of nineteen astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. His only space flight was the third lunar landing mission, Apollo 14, from January 31 to February 9, 1971. His crewmates were Spacecraft Commander Alan Shepard and Lunar Module pilot Edgar Mitchell.
