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Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, 6th Man to walk on the Moon, Dead at 85
Posted on 2/5/16 at 4:43 pm
Posted on 2/5/16 at 4:43 pm
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R.I.P.
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Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13's "successful failure" and later devoted his life to exploring the mind, physics and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens, has died in Florida. He was 85.
Mitchell died Thursday night at a West Palm Beach hospice after a short illness, his daughter, Kimberly Mitchell, said. Mitchell's passing coincides with the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 14 mission, which ran from Jan. 31-Feb. 9, 1971.
Mitchell, one of only 12 humans to set foot on the moon, was not a typical strait-laced astronaut: In later years, he said aliens visited Earth and faith healers were legit. He attempted to communicate telepathically with friends at home during his Apollo mission. He had an "epiphany" in space that focused him on studying consciousness, physics and other mysteries.
"What I experienced during that three-day trip home was nothing short of an overwhelming sense of universal connectedness," Mitchell wrote in his 1996 autobiography. "It occurred to me that the molecules of my body and the molecules of the spacecraft itself were manufactured long ago in the furnace of one of the ancient stars that burned in the heavens about me."
R.I.P.
Posted on 2/5/16 at 4:51 pm to Wally Sparks
One of the greatest movies ever made
Posted on 2/5/16 at 4:55 pm to Wally Sparks
We landed on the moon! --Lloyd Christmas
Posted on 2/5/16 at 5:26 pm to Wally Sparks
RIP, Hero.
This post was edited on 2/5/16 at 5:27 pm
Posted on 2/5/16 at 7:26 pm to Wally Sparks
I believe that means the crew of Apollo 14 are now no longer with us. Stu Roosa died some years back, Alan Shepard died in 1998, and now Edgar Mitchell has passed away.
Posted on 2/5/16 at 7:26 pm to Wally Sparks
glad his illness was not a long one...RIP, Mr Mitchell....
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