Apollo 14: Mission to Fra Mauro Part 1 of 2

Video from the channel TheConquestofSpace about Apollo 14, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 14:42. Language: English. Video type: Archive footage.

First half of NASA's film about Apollo 14 (AS-509). It recalls Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 flight in 1961 and presents the launch on 31 January 1971, with Shepard in command, Stuart Roosa in the Kitty Hawk command module and Edgar Mitchell in the Antares lunar module. It recounts the docking that failed several times until the sixth attempt, the false abort signal resolved by reprogramming the lunar module computer, the landing radar malfunction and the Moon landing. It ends with the first moonwalk: the flag, the MET cart and the deployment of the automatic scientific station, up to the return to Antares.

It is mission footage and mission control footage, edited by NASA in 1971.

Fra Mauro had been the destination Apollo 13 failed to reach. Scientists hoped to collect there material ejected by the impact that formed the Imbrium basin, capable of revealing the Moon's early history.