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Also known as Edgar Dean Mitchell, Edgar D. Mitchell

American astronaut (1930-2016)

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  • Prayer Journal Notebook : Prayer Journal Notebook with Calendar 2018-2019 ,Dialy Guide for Prayer, Praise and Thanks Workbook
  • Earthrise
  • From Outer Space to Inner Space
  • The Space Less Traveled
  • Reflections of the Moon

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Canada
Active from
1943-11-07
2008 universal fire victimcomposercontemporary folkfamousfemale vocalsfolk

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Total plays
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  • You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “Look at that, you son of a bitch".

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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
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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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Edgar Mitchell
date of birth
1930-09-17
date of death
2016-02-04
time in space
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name in native language
Ed Mitchell
birth name
Edgar Dean Mitchell
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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.

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