Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, 6th man on moon, dies in Florida
Friday, February 5, 2016 - 20:41
in Astronomy & Space
Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13's "successful failure" and later devoted his life to exploring physics, the mind, and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens, has died in Florida. He was 85.