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[Apollo 14] Edgar Mitchell at Fra Mauro Research Base, with Alan Shepard’s shadow in the foreground. Alan Shepard, 31 January - 9 February 1971, EVA 1. Printed 1971. Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper [NASA image AS14–67-9389, originally shot on color film]. 25.4×20.3 cm (10×8 in), blank on the verso, numbered “NASA AS14–67-9389” in black in top margin (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas). Alan Shepard took this superb photograph to document the location of the “comprehensive sample” collected on the way back to the LM after the ALSEP deployment. It is a “locator” to Fra Mauro Research Base (or ALSEP site) which is in the background, 180 m west northwest from the LM Antares. Mitchell walks back toward the LM with the extension handle in hand. The photographer’s shadow is in the foreground. From the mission transcript (photograph taken at T+117:42:26 after launch): 117:41:18 Mitchell: I have the extension handle, and I’m starting out after Alan, now. (Pause) 117:41:44 Mitchell: Whee! Hey, this is sure a different mode of traveling than carrying that barbell. 117:41:52 Shepard: Okay, Houston, on this (Pause) comprehensive sample, we’re about a third of the way back to the LM. I’ve not found an area exactly what I want, so I have drawn a circle which is approximately 2 m in radius, and I’m going to pick the surface rocks from that, and a sampling of the surface fines from that area. 117:42:24 McCandless: Roger, Al. 117:42:26 Shepard: And I’ve photographically documented this location with a “locator” shot back to the LM and to the ALSEP.
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