Search results
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Feb 9, 2021 · New Orleans, commander of the recovery task force Rear Adm. Thomas B. Hayward, center, welcomes Apollo 14 astronauts Stuart A. Roosa, left, Alan B. Shepard, and Edgar D. Mitchell back to Earth, as Capt. Robert E. Moore, commander of the New Orleans, looks on from the podium.
Feb 1, 2021 · 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.
Stuart Allen Roosa. 1933-American astronaut who orbited the Moon as command module pilot of Apollo 14. The successful flight of Apollo 14, in February 1971, restored public confidence in NASA after the aborted Apollo 13 mission.
