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February 9, 1971 – A U.S. Navy helicopter scoops up Apollo 14 astronaut Stu Roosa after he splashed down in the Pacific Ocean along with crewmates Ed Mitchell and Alan Shepard. (NASA)

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(9 Feb. 1971) --- The Apollo 14 Command Module (CM), with astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander; Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot; and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, aboard, approaches touchdown in the South Pacific Ocean to successfully end a 10-day lunar landing mission. The splashdown occurred at 3:04:39 p.m. (CST), Feb. 9, 1971, approximately 765 nautical miles south of American Samoa. The three crew men were flown by helicopter to the USS New Orleans prime recovery ship.

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Took a much-needed trip to Arlington today to visit some of our boys!!

It was super busy in the closer sections, more crowded than usual, but further out it wasn’t so bad. Today would’ve been Ron McNair’s 67th birthday so it was nice to visit the Challenger memorial.

I guess within the next few months they’ll be adding the Apollo 1 memorial that was approved and funded last summer. It’ll be nice to have them all together. I also visited John Glenn (who always gets a lot of visitors <3), Stu Roosa (who I don’t think I’ve visited before), El and Charlie of Gemini 9, Ted Freeman, C.C. Williams, and Pete, which was nice since in August I couldn’t visit him. The leaves are finally changing here in D.C. and it was a really pretty day (still too hot for October though…)

I got to sit with Gus and Roger for a long time :’) I brought my patch of the 334th Fighter Squadron, Gus’ unit in Korea, and it was a real nice, needed visit. They get a lot of visitors, too. I hope Ed gets just as many up at West Point. Here’s my favorite photo from today: