The Apollo 14 Mission and Preliminary Results

Abstract

In February 1971, the Apollo 14 mission successfully landed in the Fra Mauro region of the Moon. Astronauts deployed a sophisticated long-lived geophysical station. While on the surface they performed active seismic and magnetic experiments, deployed a solar wind collector and laser reflector, made an extensive geologic traverse, and performed television, movie, and still camera photography and other minor tasks. They selected a variety of samples of lunar material and returned to Earth over 40 kg for study. In orbit about the Moon, a variety of scientific and operational photography was accomplished.