LE GRAND RETOUR SUR LA LUNE ( ET DU GOLF - Apollo 14 ) ? - Une Dose d'espace #6

Video from the channel AstroKevin, la Chaîne Espace et Astronomie about Apollo 14, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 13:10. Language: French. Video type: Documentary.

French-language episode of the series "Une Dose d'espace", by content creator AstroKevin, devoted to Apollo 14 on its 50th anniversary. It covers the mission from start to finish: the Saturn V launch on 31 January 1971 with Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa, the journey, the landing at Fra Mauro, the experiments and the return, plus a few anecdotes.

The mission took place almost a year after the Apollo 13 accident, which delayed the program's schedule. The video explains the pogo effect, which on that flight shut down the second stage's (S-II) center engine early; on Apollo 14 that stage performed as planned. It also recounts that docking the command module Kitty Hawk with the lunar module Antares took nearly one hour and forty minutes and six attempts.

The lunar module landed at Fra Mauro on 5 February 1971. There the ALSEP experiment package was deployed, including passive and active seismometers, particle detectors and a laser retroreflector. The samples were used to study KREEP and to date the impact that formed the Mare Imbrium. Roosa carried around 500 seeds that gave rise to the "Moon trees", and Shepard hit two golf balls on the surface. The capsule splashed down on 9 February in the South Pacific and the USS New Orleans recovered the crew.