Stuart Roosa was an American NASA astronaut and United States Air Force officer who served as command module pilot on Apollo 14 in 1971, remaining in lunar orbit while crewmates Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell walked on the Moon. A former smokejumper who had fought forest fires before joining NASA, Roosa carried hundreds of tree seeds on the mission as an experiment, which were later germinated and planted across the United States as the well known Moon Trees.
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Stuart Roosa was a NASA astronaut who flew as Command Module pilot on Apollo 14.
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1933-08-16
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Stuart Allen Roosa (August 16, 1933, December 12, 1994) was an American aeronautical engineer, smokejumper, United States Air Force pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 14 mission.
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Stuart Allen Roosa (August 16, 1933, December 12, 1994) was an American aeronautical engineer, smokejumper, United States Air Force pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 14 mission.
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Commander Alan Shepard, Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa, and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell launched on their nine-day mission on Sunday, January 31, 1971, at 4:03:02 p.m.
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