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Apollo 14 crew arrive at White Room atop Pad A, Launch Complex 39

The three Apollo 14 astronauts arrive at the White Room atop Pad A, Launch Complex 39, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center during the Apollo 14 prelaunch countdown. Apollo 14, with Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander; Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot; and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, aboard was launched at 4:03:02 p.m. (EST) on January 31, 1971, on a lunar landing mission. Note identifying bands on the sleeve and leg of Shepard. Standing in the center foreground is astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, chief of the Manned Spacecraft Center (now NASA's Johnson Space Center) Astronaut Office.

 

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Image Number: S71-16635

Date: January 31, 1971

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Taken on January 31, 1971