#apollo 14

[humanoidhistory]

Apollo 14 concept art, 1971.

[lonestarflight]

The original Moon landing sites

"NASA contracted to have 15 flight-worthy Saturn V rockets produced. Apollo 11 achieved the first landing with the sixth Saturn V, leaving nine for follow-on landings. The following landing sites were chosen for these missions, planned to occur at intervals of approximately four months through July 1972."

Note: I've updated this list with the original tentative planned launch dates.

G-type Mission

Apollo 11: (G) Mare Tranquillitatis, July 1969

H-type missions

Apollo 12: (H1) Ocean of Storms (Surveyor 3 site), November 1969

Apollo 13: (H2) Fra Mauro Highlands, March 1970

Apollo 14: (H3) Littrow Crater, July 1970

Apollo 15: (H4) Censorinus Crater, November 1970

J-type missions, the extended stay missions

Apollo 16: (J1) Descartes Highlands or Tycho Crater (Surveyor 7 site), April 1971

Apollo 17: (J2) Marius Hills or Marius Hills volcanic domes, September 1971

Apollo 18: (J3) Copernicus crater or Schröter's Valley or Gassendi crater, February 1972, later July 1973

Apollo 19: (J4) Hadley Rille, July 1972, later December 1973

Apollo 20: (J5) Tycho Crater or Copernicus Crater or Marius Hills, December 1972, later July 1974

As we all know, plans were changed and missions were cancelled. But it's nice to see what was initially planned.

To compare with the actual landing sites and dates:

Apollo 12: (H1) Ocean of Storms (Surveyor 3 site), November 1969

Apollo 13: (H2) never landed, April 1970

Apollo 14: (H3) Fra Mauro, January-February 1971

Apollo 15: (J1) Hadley–Apennine, July-August 1971

Apollo 16: (J2) Descartes Highlands, April 1972

Apollo 17: (J3) Taurus–Littrow, December 1972

NASA ID: link, link

Information from Astronautix: link

Information from Wikipedia: link

[cosmonautroger]

Apollo 14, 1971

[nocternalrandomness]

Apollo 14 recovery operations in the South Pacific Ocean - February 9, 1971

[krakenmare]

A close-up view of Apollo 14 sample number 14414 & 14412, a fine lunar powder-like material (February 12, 1971)

[janeway-lover]

Since the first Moon Landing in 1969, we’ve sent a total of a dozen men to the Moon. They are

Neil Armstrong (Apollo 11)

Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11)

Pete Conrad (Apollo 12)

Alan Bean (Apollo 12)

Alan Shepard (Apollo 14)

Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14)

David Scott (Apollo 15)

John Young (Apollo 16)

Charles Duke (Apollo 16)

Eugene Cernan (Apollo 17)

Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17)

[misforgotten2]

“You better use it too ‘cause Nixon don’t want no damn hippies coming back from the moon.”

People Weekly   September  29th  1974

[hatari007]

Restored Footage of the Apollo 14 Launch in 1971 - Clip by "Nineteenth century videos. Back to life."

[stone-cold-groove]

Apollo 14 mission patch.

[33bowls]

Moon Trees, right here on Earth.

[jeandejard3n]

First Man: Neil Armstrong

[adrianl4u]

untied moon boot! Apollo 14 NASA

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 14 Saturn V (CSM-110/LM-8/SA-509) on Pad A Launch Complex 39 at night.

Date: January 31, 1971

NASA ID: KSC-71PC-70

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[captainfreelance1inktober]

Inktober Day 9

February 6, 1971

During Apollo 14 mission astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. not only made history becoming the oldest man to walk on the moon at age 47; He also became the only man to  play golf on it after a hard days work collecting simples of course.

[krakenmare]

Vertical view Apollo 16 Descartes landing sites as photographed by Apollo 14 (January 12, 1971)