Edgar Mitchell
Edgar Dean Mitchell 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. He was the second Freemason to set foot on the Moon, after Buzz Aldrin.
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- Born in
- Hereford
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCarnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States Naval AcademyNaval Postgraduate SchoolU.S. Air Force Test Pilot School
- Awards
- 🏆 Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Walter Wrigley🎓 James Emerson Potter
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1930
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