Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell deceased

Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell deceased

World February 5, 2016 22:49

- American astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to set foot on the moon, is deceased in a hospital in West Palm Beach. That has let his family to the Palm Beach Post know. He was 85 years old.

Mithchell was part of the flight of Apollo 14 in 1971. In 2001 he hit the headlines when he took over the camera that he carried to the moon at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. His former employer made him upon a process to pants because he had stolen the camera. Mitchell said the allegations against him and said that thanks to the unit was not on the moon behind.

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