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- Birth nameEdgar Dean Mitchell
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Edgar Dean Mitchell (September 17, 1930 - February 4, 2016) was a United States Navy officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, ufologist and NASA astronaut. As the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- SpousesSheila Sisco(April 29, 1989 - July 19, 1998) (separated, 1 child)Anita Orr Rettig (divorced)
- Member of the Apollo 14 mission and went to the moon with' Alan Shepard' and Stuart Roosa. The command module was named Kitty Hawk and the lunar module was named Antares. They completed two EVAs or moonwalks totaling 33 hours on the moon and walked over 500 meters pulling a shopping cart full of tools and lunar samples.
- U.S. astronaut aboard Apollo 14.
- Moonwalker (Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 14, 1971).
- NASA selected him as an astronaut in 1966. He served on the support crew for Apollo 9 and as backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 10. He worked in the lunar module simulator at the Johnson Space Center during Apollo 13, developing procedures that helped bring the crew of the crippled spacecraft home.
- Mitchell and Shepard set mission records of the longest distance traversed on the lunar surface; the largest payload returned from the lunar surface; and the longest lunar stay time (33 hours). They were also the first to transmit color TV from the moon.
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