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Edgar Mitchell
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American astronaut (1930-2016)
Key facts
- Born
- Edgar Dean Mitchell , ( 1930-09-17 ) September 17, 1930, Hereford, Texas , U.S.
- Died
- February 4, 2016 (2016-02-04) (aged 85), West Palm Beach, Florida , U.S.
- Education
- Carnegie Mellon University ( BS ) Naval Postgraduate School ( BS ) Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( ScD )
- Spouse s
- Louise Randall ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1951 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1972 ) , Anita Rettig ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1973 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1984 ) , Sheila Sisco ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1989 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1999 )
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom NASA Distinguished Service Medal
- Rank
- Captain , U.S. Navy
- Time in space
- 9 days, 1 minute
- Selection
- NASA Group 5 (1966)
- Total eva time
- 9 hours, 23 minutes
- Missions
- Apollo 14
- Retirement
- October 1, 1972
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- NASA Astronaut Group 5
- Given name
- Dean
- Family name
- Mitchell
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hereford
- Place of death
- West Palm Beach
- Occupation
- airman
- Employer
- NASA
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- space exploration
- Military branch
- United States Navy
- Military rank
- captain
- Image
- Apollo 14 Camera.JPG
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- Commons category
- Edgar Mitchell
- date of birth
- 1930-09-17
- cause of death
- kidney cancer
- P450
- Apollo 14
- date of death
- 2016-02-04
- time in space
- 12961
- name in native language
- Ed Mitchell
- birth name
- Edgar Dean Mitchell
- member of the crew of
- Apollo 14
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of burial
- Arlington National Cemetery
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Encyclopedic overview
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 in 1971 he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, and was the sixth person to walk on the Moon.
Before becoming an astronaut, Mitchell earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Carnegie Institute of Technology and entered the United States Navy in 1952. After being commissioned through the Officer Candidate School at Newport, Rhode Island, he served as a Naval Aviator. In 1961, he received his second bachelor's degree, in aeronautical engineering, from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and three years later earned his doctorate in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 1965 to 1966, he attended the U.S. Air Force Aerospace Research Pilot School and graduated first in his class. During this period, he served as an instructor in advanced mathematics and navigation theory for astronaut candidates.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Edgar Mitchell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.