Stuart Roosa

<p>Stuart Allen Roosa (August 16, 1933 – December 12, 1994) was an  American <a href="/facts/Aeronautical_engineer/2Ib02w7f">aeronautical engineer</a>, <a href="/facts/Smokejumper/G95y3WLG">smokejumper</a>, <a href="/facts/United_States_Air_Force/7MxWBYlc">United States Air Force</a> <a href="/facts/Aviator/SJaN1UAJ">pilot</a>, <a href="/facts/Test_pilot/RuGs146q">test pilot</a>, and <a href="/facts/NASA/TIMCV0yV">NASA</a> <a href="/facts/Astronaut/HB1bd6Lz">astronaut</a>, who was the <a href="/facts/Apollo_Command%2fService_Module/rfoTgzFx">Command Module</a> Pilot for the <a href="/facts/Apollo_14/SuokTzAu">Apollo 14</a> mission. The mission lasted from January 31 to February 9, 1971, and was the third mission to land astronauts (<a href="/facts/Alan_Shepard/hS5AgMdu">Alan Shepard</a> and <a href="/facts/Edgar_Mitchell/bnmrsV3s">Edgar Mitchell</a>) on the <a href="/facts/Moon/zKHqEMPb">Moon</a>. While Shepard and Mitchell spent two days on the lunar surface, Roosa conducted experiments from orbit in the Command Module <i>Kitty Hawk</i>. He was one of <a href="/facts/List_of_Apollo_astronauts/nXReWvNK">24 men to travel to the Moon</a>, which he orbited 34 times.
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Stuart Roosa