@ Kennedy Space Center, FL
Septembver 2021
Launched on January 31, 1971, Apollo 14 was the eighth crewed mission of the program, carrying Commander Alan Shepard, Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa, and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell to the moon and back. The Command Module (CM) was developed and built for NASA by North American Aviation with 19 CMs launched into space. Of these, nine flew humans to the Moon between 1968 and 1972, and two performed crewed test flights in low Earth orbit, all as part of the Apollo program. Another four CMs had flown as part of uncrewed Apollo testing. Following the conclusion of the Apollo program and during 1973–1974, three CMs ferried astronauts to the orbital Skylab space station. Finally in 1975, the last flown CM docked with the Soviet craft Soyuz 19 as part of the international Apollo–Soyuz Test Project. The Block II hatch seen here combined the inner and outer hatches of the earlier design for improved opening speed. iPhone 12 Pro photo.