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Post by swamprat on Jan 12, 2016 11:05:17 GMT -6
Reports are that the 85 year old Mitchell fell and hit his head. He is hospitalized in Florida.
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Post by auntym on Jan 12, 2016 15:12:48 GMT -6
WOW...i hope he's all right...about 20 yrs ago i had the pleasure of meeting him at 2 parties in his honor... he was very approachable & friendly... i liked him...
swamprat is there a link to this information? i can't find anything about it down here...
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Post by auntym on Feb 5, 2016 16:07:34 GMT -6
www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/local/apollo-14-astronaut-edgar-mitchell-85-dies-in-west/nqKdg/
Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, 85, dies in West Palm Beach Friday, Feb. 5, 2016 Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, who was part of the Apollo 14 space crew that flew to the moon in 1971, died late Thursday in West Palm Beach, according to his family. Mitchell, 85, lived in suburban Lake Worth and died at a local hospice at about 10 p.m. Thursday, his daughter, former West Palm Beach City Commissioner Kimberly Mitchell told The Palm Beach Post. Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, 85, dies in West Palm Beach photo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell was honored at ‘Out of this World’ program at The Breakers in 2011. Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon. He was part of a three-man crew, with Alan Shepard Jr. and Stuart Roosa, who took part in the Apollo 14 space mission. It was the eighth manned mission in the United States Apollo program and they became the third ever to land on the moon. Mitchell was the lunar module pilot on the mission. Apollo 14 launched just over 45 years ago, on Jan. 31, 1971. The nine-day mission ended Feb. 9 when the crew landed in the South Pacific Ocean. Unlike other astronauts who tend to live reclusive lives, Mitchell remained in the public eye. In this 2011 photo, Edgar Mitchell holds up the “rational hand control” that he used to help land the Apollo 14 Lunar Module “Antares” on the moon in February of 1971. Mitchell explained that NASA allowed him and all of the astronauts of his day to keep mementos from their trips into space. Yet, after choosing to sell a lunar camera that was aboard the Apollo 14 moon mission, he was sued by NASA. (Damon Higgins/The Palm Beach Post) In 2011, he turned over the camera he took to the moon to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. The U.S. government filed a lawsuit against him in that same year, saying he stole the camera. Mitchell denied the allegations and said if it wasn’t for him, the camera would have never made it back to Earth. In 2006, he gave a “moon rock” to the South Florida Science Museum in West Palm Beach, a rock that was given to him by NASA as part of their recognition to him for achievements and sacrifices with the space program. Mitchell was born in Hereford, Texas, on Sept. 17, 1930 but considered his hometown Artesia, N.M., near Roswell. Mitchell was open about his views on the paranormal and psychic, and he founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which sponsors research into the nature of consciousness, or studying the unexplained. In his 1996 memoir, “The Way of the Explorer,” he described the experience on his return to Earth as life-changing. “What I experienced during that three-day trip home was nothing short of an overwhelming sense of universal connectedness. I actually felt what has been described as an ecstasy of unity,” he said. MORE PHOTOS & CONTINUE READING: www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/local/apollo-14-astronaut-edgar-mitchell-85-dies-in-west/nqKdg/ EDGAR MITCHELL SIXTH ASTRONAUT TO WALK ON MOON DIES: www.collectspace.com/news/news-020516a-astronaut-edgar-mitchell-obituary.html
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Post by auntym on Feb 6, 2016 14:53:12 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2016 20:25:13 GMT -6
RIP Edgar Mitchell heavy.com/news/2016/02/edgar-mitchell-ufo-aliens-exist-are-real-ed-et-roswell-conspiracy-coverup-cover-up-died-noetics-esp/I want to say the timing of his death was a little odd. Whereas some other people might think it was really "cool" (being an anniversary or "eve" of an anniversary). My own dad, age 81 falls all the time; half the time striking his head, so he has resorted to wearing a bike helmet (mostly to appease his daughter). And of course we all hear about older people falling and breaking a hip (plus young people that do the same, or break a wrist.) Did Mr. Mitchells' head weigh more than the standard, due to his surplus of brains, and so he struck his head harder? I'm not trying to joke around about this. Him hitting his head, being in the hospital, and our own AuntyM unable to locate information on him, just seems really weird to me. Sure, he was 85. but nowadays that doesn't mean much . . . I'm just kind of surprised there aren't some "rumblings" from the conspiracy crowd. Edgar Mitchell knew, and talked to a lot of people. I guess his death would have been really suspicious in the 90's, huh. Still, very sad.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2016 3:15:05 GMT -6
His time to move forward. My grandmother fell and hit her head..she was 84..watering her plants standing on a small wall..hit her head just right when she fell or just wrong depending on the view point..she'd say just right..and she fractured her skull. She lived 4 hours after the fall. It all depends on the fall or the landing. Last year I fell about the same distance backward onto my head and shattered a coffee table and landed in a pile of glass. Not even a dent. Naturally my grandmother wasn't an astronaut..so no one thought it odd. Just those blasted roses of hers. Truth be told..she would so much rather have died in that manner than some slow trip into Alzheimer's-ville. I would too for that matter.
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Post by jcurio on May 14, 2021 23:37:08 GMT -6
Interesting bits about E. Mitchell.
Also, some hints of “advanced tech” on Apollo 14…. 🤗
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